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Udall, Nicholas
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Udall, Nicholas (1505–56), English scholar, headmaster in turn of Eton and Westminster, and the author of
Ralph Roister Doister. Written while he was at Eton for performance by the boys in place of the usual Latin comedy, it was probably performed there between 1534 and 1541, though efforts have been made to connect it with Udall's headmastership at Westminster and date it 1552. It was not printed until about 1566–7. This comedy, the first play in English to deserve that name, is much influenced by
Terence and
Plautus, and turns on the efforts of a vainglorious fool to win the heart and hand of a wealthy London widow. Although Udall is known to have written several other plays, they are lost, or survive only in fragmentary form. He was once credited with the authorship of
Thersites, an interlude acted at Court in 1537 which is now considered to be the work of John
Heywood.
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Lost conventions of godly comedy in Udall's Thersites.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...bent, ranging from the renowned Nicholas Udall of Eton College and William Hunnis...work of grammar-school author Nicholas Udall, (7) the "father of English...entertainments to "our well beloved Nicholas Udall." We also learn, in a long...
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K-State Third in Udall Competition Two K-State Students Named Udall Scholars.
M2 Presswire; 4/8/2008; 700+ words
; ...STATE: K-State Third in Udall Competition Two K-State Students Named Udall Scholars(C)1994-2008...Iris Wilson, Manhattan, and Nicholas Long, Topeka, are among the...receiving $5,000 Morris K. Udall Scholarships. Wilson is a...
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Five K-State Students to Compete for Udall Scholarships.
M2 Presswire; 3/11/2008; 700+ words
; ...State Students to Compete for Udall Scholarships(C)1994-2008...nominated for $5,000 Morris K. Udall scholarships. The nominees...junior in biology, Oketo; Nicholas Long, senior in architectural...congressional scholarship honors Udall, a former congressman from...
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 "The People (London, England)")
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101 GLORIOUS GAFFES; We've all done it - opened our mouths and dropped a clanger! The minute the words are out you wish the ground would open up and swallow you whole. And no-one seems to put their foot in it more often than our sporting heroes and commentators. But, as LINDA UDALL reveals, they are not alone. Politicians and TV stars have also let slip some priceless bloomers...(Features)
Newspaper article from: The People (London, England); 10/6/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...to pay for immortality. Gloria Estefan, singer Glenn Miller became a legend in his own lifetime due to his early death. Nicholas Parsons, game show host Jim Reeves died on 31st July, 1964, but his career was not affected by his death. Ed Stewart...
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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TWO MORE UDALLS BOUND FOR CONGRESS COLORADO'S MARK, N.M.'S TOM FOLLOW FAMILY'S FOOTSTEPS.(Local)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 11/4/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Udall 1920- ; Arizona Congress, 1956-1961; Sec. of Interior, 1961-69. Morris Udall 1922- ; Arizona Congress, 1961-91 (Son of John Udall) Nicholas Udall 1913- ; Phoenix mayor, 1948-53, Superior Ct. judge, 1952-57 (Daughter of...
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Greggs tested my loyalty... and it wasn't worth a bun
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 1/10/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...his own argument and was first coined by the scholar Nicholas Udall in 1548 while translating a work by Erasmus. A supplementary question is: what would Erasmus or Nicholas Udall make of the subject of my vexation? I speak, of course...
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Words: Stuff
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/9/2000; ; 689 words
; ...surprised to see the expression "jolly good stuff" with the date 1542 attached to it - this was in the playwright Nicholas Udall's translation of Erasmus's Apophthegmata, where Socrates is talking about a book he's read. Stuff has given...
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Jacob and Esau and the iconoclasm of merit.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 3/22/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...from allegory toward realism, has given commentators much cause to disagree. Its authorship is in dispute, with Nicholas Udall and William Hunnis the most prevalent candidates, (1) as is its date of composition, which, since it might fall...
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Imaginary Betrayals: Subjectivity and the Discourses of Treason in Early Modern England.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...was a loose woman before she married the king and was therefore unsuitable to be queen; indeed, she had to go. If Nicholas Udall's Ralph Roister Doister shows how these gender and property categories were sustained in the drama, it is in the...
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Adages and articles
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 12/16/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...used in schools, such as Richard Taverner's Proverbes or Adagies -- a collection of proverbs from Erasmus -- and Nicholas Udall's Floures of Terence (the Latin poet whose name Housman used as a pseudonym for his friend Moses Jackson in the...
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Nicholas Udall
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Nicholas Udall 1505-56, English dramatist, educated at Oxford. He was headmaster of Eton (1534-41) and of Westminster School (from 1554...
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Udall, Nicholas
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Udall, Nicholas (1505–56), English scholar...efforts have been made to connect it with Udall's headmastership at Westminster and date...hand of a wealthy London widow. Although Udall is known to have written several other...
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Geminus (also Known as Lambrit or Lambert), Thomas
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...English. The translations and the text were the work of Nicholas Udall, the new text being basically the same as that employed...century manuscript copy (Welcome MS. no. 564). To this Udall added some sections from Ludovicus Vassaeus ’...
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English
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...intersect with folk and morality play influences, notably in plays such as Ralph Roister Doister (c. 1552) by Nicholas Udall, and Gammer Gurton's Needle (1566), often attributed to William Stevenson. The universities ( Gammer Gurton...
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School Drama
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...the first half of the 16th century, and the first two regular English comedies— Ralph Roister Doister by Nicholas Udall and Gammer Gurton's Needle probably by William Stevenson —were given at Eton (or perhaps Westminster...
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