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TURBERVILLE (or TURBEEVILE), GEORGE (1540^-1610?), English poet, second son of Nicholas Turberville of Whitchurch, Dorset, belonged to an old Dorsetshire family, the D'Urbervilles of Mr Thomas Hardy's novel, Tess. He became a scholar of Winchester College in 1 ...

... s filled by painful rhymesters with rare flashes, such as Googe, Churchyard and Turberville. The English Renaissance drama, both comic and tragic, illustrates on the largest scale the characteristic power of the antique at this period — at first to reproduce i ...