Ralph Roister Doister
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A play named Ralph Roister Doister is generally looked upon as the first real English comedy.
From English Literature for Boys and Girls by H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall
Wherfore I beseech you, with me to be a witnesse, That in all my lyfe I neuer intended thing lesse, And what a brainsicke foole Ralph Roister Doister is, Your selfe know well enough.
From Roister Doister Written, probably also represented, before 1553. Carefully edited from the unique copy, now at Eton College by Edward Arber
The earliest of such attempts which we know is the comedy of Ralph Roister Doister, written by Nicholas Udall for Eton boys at some time between 1534 and 1541.
From An Introduction to Shakespeare by H. N. MacCracken
Nicholas Udall, for example, who had a large share in the translation of Erasmus's Paraphrase on the New Testament, also translated parts of Terence and is best known as the author of Ralph Roister Doister.
From Early Theories of Translation by Flora Ross Amos
Ralph Roister Doister, by Nicholas Udall, the first English comedy, about 1534.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
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