[DOC] [TLE] Ralph Roister Doister - Wikipedia [PAR] Date premiered, 1550s. Place premiered, London. Original language, English. 
Genre, Comedy. Setting, London. Ralph Roister Doister is a play by Nicholas 
Udall, which was once regarded as the first comedy to be written in the English 
language. ... the play was first written for public performance by boys at the 
London school... [DOC] [TLE] 1553 in literature - Wikipedia [PAR] Approximate date  Ralph Roister Doister, the first known comedy in the English, 
is written by London schoolmaster Nicholas Udall for his pupils to perform. [DOC] [TLE] 14. "Ralph Roister Doister". V. Early English Comedy. Vol. 5. The ... [PAR] ... Strunk's Style, Mencken's Language, Cambridge History, The King James 
Bible, Oxford ... Thus, Ralph Roister Doister is the sole work which remains to 
illustrate ... 20 Thomas Wilson, who had been at Eton under Udall, published in 
1550/1 The ... The inference is that the play had been performed for the first time 
between... [DOC] [TLE] J! Archive - Show #968, aired 1988-11-16 [PAR] First performed in the 1550s, "Ralph Roister Doister" is the first known comedy in 
this language ... Maroon Studios star who enjoyed a Diet Coke while watching 
his wife, Jessica, perform... [DOC] [TLE] Nicholas Udall - 16th-century British Literature - Sites - Google [PAR] Nothing is known of his family, although there is almost a certain connection to 
the ... The one extant play that is certainly by him is Ralph Roister Doister, ... of 
early English comedy, fusing elements from Latin comedy together with a native 
English ... In February 1534 Udall published his first important work, Floures for 
Latine... [DOC] [TLE] Gwynneth Bowen - Shakespeare's Early Style - SourceText.Com [PAR] Shakespeare and his Betters, by R. C. Churchill, the first attempt to summarize ... 
They are "early" because they are known to have been on the stage by 1592 and, 
... which was published anonymously in 1594, and performed in the same year. ... 
the first regular English Comedy, Ralph Roister Doister, by Nicholas Udall (c. [DOC] [TLE] Nicholas Udall Essay - Udall, Nicholas - eNotes.com [PAR] Udall has been hailed as the father of English comedy. ... Udall's best-known 
work, Ralph Roister Doister, is regarded as a significant work in the ... structure 
and the first to apply that structure to a unified action following a classical design. 
... to the development of English, demonstrating its capacity as a literary 
language. [DOC] [TLE] Timeline 1550-1574 - Timelines of History [PAR] 1550 Mar 24, France and England signed the Peace of Boulogne. It ended the ... 
1550 Nicholas Udall wrote the first known English comedy: "Ralph Roister 
Doister." (TL-MB, 1988 ..... 1555 The first Jesuit play was performed in Vienna. (
TL-MB ..... 3) The idols of the marketplace, caused by the language itself. 4) The 
idols of... [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "Ralph Roister Doister" - Internet Archive [PAR] Throughout France the performance of farces was furthered by the activity of ... In 
England, only one society resembling the French puy is known to have existed, 
..... NICHOLAS UDALL The Ralph Roister Doister of Nicholas Udall is the first .... 
not the first and second of 1550-51, 1552, proves the comedy to have been 
written... [DOC] [TLE] The Plautine Tradition in Shakespeare - JStor [PAR] the first Italian comedy, La Cassaria (1498?). Bibbiena's .... of the seventy-odd 
plays known to have been performed at those universities ... more popular 
Gammer Gurion's Needle (1550-53?), show the ..... Terence. Cf. Ralph Roister 
Doister, V. 4. ..... Latin and English ("scraps" from "a great feast of languages"); he 
talks... [DOC] [TLE] Precursors to Elizabethan Drama  Elizabethan Drama [PAR] In 1562, the first English tragedy, Gorbaduc, written by the Thomases Norton and 
Sackville, ... The earliest

Question: First performed in the 1550s, "Ralph Roister Doister" is the first known comedy in this language
Answer: English