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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III AUTHOR AND PLAY 1. NICHOLAS UDALL The Ralph Roister Doister of Nicholas Udall is the / first English play which we possess ? probably the first: English play of substantial merit ? to show the influence, in substance and in form, of the study of the classic; drama. Born in Hampshire in 1505, Nicholas Udall1 was admitted scholar at Winchester in 1517 (aged twelve) and scholar of Corpus Christi, Oxford, January 18, 1520 (having past his fifteenth year at Christmas). He received the baccalaureate degree May 30, 1524, and was appointed probationary fellow September 30. About 1526, he was one of several arrested on Wolsey's order for possession of Tyndale's New Testament and the purchase of Lutheran books. Upon recantation he was released, but suspicion of Lutheran tendencies delayed his proceeding M. A. until 1534. He became at Oxford a close friend of the great antiquary, John Leland, among whose poems are three which praise his learningand generous temper (Collectanea, 1774, 5, 89, 90, 105). The two friends were joint authors of verses used in a pageant in celebration of the coronation of Anne Boleyn in 1533.2 Under this date, though Udall'spreface is dated 1534, was published Udall's Floures for Latine Spekynge selected and gathered out of Terence, a most successful school-book, which, with two enlargements, ran through five further editions by 1581.1 In the preface, written from the Augustinian monastery in London, Udall dedicated the work to his pupils, so that he was probably teaching in London at this time. 1 See, in particular, for his life, W. D. Cooper, ed. R. R. D., Shakespeare Society, 1847; E. Arher, ed. R. R. D., English Reprints, 1809; J W. Hales, Englische Studien, 18, 408 (1893); E. Fhigel in An English Miscellany, 1901; also his edition of R. ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217746342 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217746349 |
| Weight | 0.35 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.24 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 100 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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