Five Pre-shakespearean Comedies Early Tudor Period
, by Boas, Frederick S.- ISBN: 9781406790559 | 1406790559
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/31/2006
This volume of transitional comedies contains our first known secular play, Fulgens and Lucrece, by Henry Medwall; John Heywood's merry farce, The Four PP; Nicholas Udall's rollicking Ralph Roister Doister; George Gascoigne's Supposes, the first English prose comedy; and the hearty rustic play, Gammer Gurton's Needle.