Roister

* Also, I ate three and a half dozen oysters while attending the final night of the Roister With The Oyster fest, alongside gracefuleigh and kaynorr, who also partnered up with me the next night to see The Prestige, which bloody well ruled.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2006

In revenge for her scorn Ralph Roister Doister threatens to burn the dame's house down, and sets off to attack it with his servants.

English Literature for Boys and Girls

Nicholas Udall, took the further step of writing for his boys on the classical model an original farce-comedy, the amusing 'Ralph Roister

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

Roister smacks of the "miles gloriosus"; Merygreeke combines the vice with the Terentian rogue; and yet, when all is said, Udall's play remains a remarkably original production, realistic and English.

John Lyly John Dover Wilson 1925

"Ralph Roister Doister," and "Gammer Gurton's Needle," all of which may be taken to belong to a period some time anterior to their publication.

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

= Roister Doister = (_Ralph_), a vain, thoughtless, blustering fellow, in pursuit of Custance, a rich widow, but baffled in his endeavor.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

= Ralph Roister Doister =, by Nicholas Udall, the first English comedy, about 1534.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

It is written in rhyming quatrains, and not in couplets like _Ralph Roister

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

+ Roister Doisters champion, I shrewe his best cheeke.

Ralph Roister Doister Nicholas Udall 1530

= Matthew Merrygreek =, the servant of Ralph Roister Doister.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853