EN3CM03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ralph Roister Doister, Nicholas Udall, The Spanish Tragedy
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The elizabethan audience eagerly accepted the first farces, ralph roister doister by. Nicholas udall- the anonymous gammer gurton"s needle- gorboduc the first play in blank verse written by thomas sackville and thomas norton- well accepted- first commercial playwrights were the university wits- they were thomas lodge and. George peele from oxford and christopher marlowe, robert green and thomas. Robert greene"s friar bacon and friar bungay criticized the follies of the nobility . Peele"s old wives tale and thomas nashe"s work summer"s last will and testament are a mixture of comedy, music and spectacle- courtly refinement is to be found in.