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Udall

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Udall [ˈjuːdəl], Uvedale [ˈjuːdəl ˈjuːvˌdeɪl]
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(Biographies / Udall, Nicholas (?1505-1556) M, English, THEATRE: dramatist) Nicholas. ?1505-56, English dramatist, whose comedy Ralph Roister Doister (?1553), modelled on Terence and Plautus, is the earliest known English comedy
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After Nicholas Udall and Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville, the writers of our first comedy and first tragedy, there came:--
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
Shortly after the middle of the century, probably, the head-master of Westminister School, Nicholas Udall, took the further step of writing for his boys on the classical model an original farce-comedy, the amusing 'Ralph Roister Doister.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
 
 
 
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