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This evening the Delta Upsilon Fraternity will give its first public performance of Nicholas Udall's "Ralph Roister Doister". This play, surviving in one copy owned by Eton College, is usually regarded as our first English comedy in the sense that people and manners English and not foreign are depicted wholly for amusement and not to instruct or to moralize. It was written for the Eton or Westminister School boys to act, for Udall was successively master in both schools. It derives its inspiration from Latin comedy, but as a whole is original and English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROF. BAKER ON D. U. PLAY | 3/11/1912 | See Source »

...Ralph Roister Doister" is an interesting, amusing, well-staged, and well-acted revival that maintains the best traditions of Delta Upsilon. The actors and Mr. Powell, the coach, are to be congratulated

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROF. BAKER ON D. U. PLAY | 3/11/1912 | See Source »

...first public performance of "Ralph Roister Doister," the fourteenth annual revival of the Harvard chapter of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity, will be given in Brattle Hall, this evening, at 8 o'clock. The remaining public performances are as follows: Tuesday evening in Brattle Hall; Thursday evening in Jordan Hall, Boston; Friday evening in the Opera House, Exeter; and Saturday evening in "The Barn", Wellesley. Tickets for these performances may be obtained at Herrick's, the Co-oprative Branch, Batchelder's Book Store, Exeter, and of C. B. Randall '12, 11 Sacramento street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "RALPH ROISTER DOISTER" | 3/11/1912 | See Source »

...Ralph Roister Doister" was written over three hundred and fifty years ago by Nicholas Udall, and Eton schoolmaster, as a farce comedy for his publis to act. The play was an instantaneous success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "RALPH ROISTER DOISTER" | 3/11/1912 | See Source »

Servants and Musicians to Roister Doister.--I. Poole '12, J. R. Desha '12, D. Ralph Roister Doister, R. C. Benchley '12 Mathew Merygreeke, R. F. Duncan '12 Gawyn Goodlucke, H. W. Miller '12 Tristram Trusty, P. J. Stearns '13 Dobinet Doughtie, O. W. Haussermann '12 Tom Truepenie, J. P. Gifford '14 Sym Suresby, R. D. Whittemore '13 Scrivener, F. C. Rogerson '13 Dame Christian Custance, T. M. Spelman '13 Margerie Mumblecrust, R. Murray '12 Tibet Talkapace, W. F. Merrill uC. Annot Alyface, C. M. Burr...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "RALPH ROISTER DOISTER" | 3/11/1912 | See Source »

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