Ralph Roister Doister

Alternative title(s): Roister Doister
Author(s): Udall, Nicholas
Date of composition:
  • 1552 (best guess, Wiggins, vol. 1, p. 245)
  • 1550 -1553 (Wiggins, vol. 1, p. 245)
Date of first performance: 1552 - 1554 ?
Date of first publication: 1566 ?
Genre (Annals): Comedy
Genre: interlude [source of genre: DEEP]

Catalogue references: Wiggins: 234 (Vol. 1)
HIERONIMO/EMOTHE text(s): 1566? quarto transcript (STC 24508)
  • [ 1566 ?] quarto Denham, H. T. Hacket single-play print
      ESTC: S102483 24508 71 46a
      EEBO-TCP: A14193 - Eton College - EEBO record TCP HTML XML HTML
      Observations: Title page missing. First line: " What creature is in health, eyther yong or olde".
      Facsimile: Greg, W. W., ed. Roister Doister. By Nicholas Udall. [1566?]. Oxford: Malone Society, 1935. Malone Society Reprints.

  • STC/WING:
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  • DEEP:
  • Greg:
  • Wiggins:

Early Performances

  • Company: unknown (Windsor Boys?) Venue: Date: 1552-1554?
    Cast:
      Location: Venue type:
      Information source: Harbage, Alfred; Schoenbaum, Samuel; Wagonheim, Sylvia Stoler. Annals of English Drama, 975-1700, 3rd edition. 1989.

    Modern editions

    • Tydeman, William, ed. Four Tudor Comedies. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, pp. 95-205. Penguin English Library.
    • Whitworth, Charles, ed. Three Sixteenth-Century Comedies. London: E. Benn, 1984, pp. 89-211. New Mermaids.
    • Gassner, John, ed. Medieval and Tudor Drama. New York: Bantam Books, 1963.
    • Adams, Joseph Quincy, ed. Chief Pre-Shakespearean Dramas.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924, pp. 423-68. Supposes, pp. 536-67.
    • Matthews, Brander; Leider, Paul Robert, ed. The Chief British Dramatists Excluding Shakespeare. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924.

    Select Bibliography: Criticism

    • Hebert, Catherine A. "Udall's 'Ralph Roister Doister'". Explicator. 1979, vol. 2, 37, p. 20.
    • Perez Martin, Maria Jesus. "La risa en la corte de Maria Tudor o la genesis de 'Ralph Roister Doister'". Letras de Deusto. 1979, vol. 18, 9, p. 27-49.
    • Dust, Philip; Wolf, William D. "Recent Studies in Early Tudor Drama: Gorboduc, Ralph Roister Doister, Gammer Gurton's Needle, and Cambises". English Literary Renaissance Amherst. 1978, 8, p. 107-19.
    • Carpenter, Nan Cooke. "Ralph Roister Doister: Miles versus Clericus". Notes and Queries. 1960, 7, p. 168-170.
    • Webster, Herbert T. "'Ralph Roister Doister' and the Little Eyases". Notes and Queries. 1951, 196, p. 135-136.
    • Wheat, Cathleen H. "A Pore Helpe, Ralph Roister Doister, and Three Laws". Philological Quarterly. 1949, 28, p. 312-319.
    • Kreuzer, James R. "Some Earlier Examples of the Rhetorical Device in 'Ralph Roister Doister' (III. iv. 33 ff.)". Review of English Studies: A Quarterly Journal of English Literature and the English Language. 1938, vol. 55, 14, p. 321-23.
    • Baldwin, T. W.; Linthicum, M. Channing. "The Date of 'Ralph Roister Doister'". Philological Quarterly. 1927, 6, p. 379-395.
    • Chislett, Wm., Jr. "The Sources of 'Ralph Roister Doister'". Modern Language Notes. 1914, vol. 6, 29, p. 166-67.
    • Hinton, James. "The Source of 'Ralph Roister Doister'". Modern Philology: A Journal Devoted to Research in Medieval and Modern Literature. 1913, vol. 2, 11, p. 273-78.

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