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Ralph Roister Doister
play by Udall
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discussed in biography
- In Nicholas Udall
…be assigned to him is Ralph Roister Doister. This must have been written, and probably was performed, about 1553. The play marks the emergence of English comedy from the medieval morality plays, interludes, and farces. It is modeled on Terence and Plautus: its central idea—of a braggart soldier-hero, with an…
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place in English literature
- In English literature: Theatres in London and the provinces
…in two farces, Nicholas Udall’s Ralph Roister Doister (1553) and the anonymous Gammer Gurton’s Needle (1559), in which academic pastiche is overlaid with country game; and what the popular tradition did for tragedy is indicated in Thomas Preston’s Cambises, King of Persia (c. 1560), a blood-and-thunder tyrant play with plenty…
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