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Udall, Nicholas

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Udall, Nicholas (c. 1505-1556)

English dramatist and scholar. Born in Hampshire and educated at Winchester and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he was headmaster of Eton College 1534-41 and Westminster School 1554-56. Udall was the author of the earliest known English comedy, Ralph Roister Doister (written around 1540/53, printed 1566-67), which was modelled on the plays of the Roman dramatists Plautus and Terence.
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