biography
pronunciation:
[yoodal]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1504–56)
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| biography:
| Playwright, born in Southampton, Hampshire, S England, UK. He studied at Oxford, and became (c.1534) headmaster of Eton. His dismissal in 1541 for indecent offences did not affect his standing at court, and Edward VI appointed him prebendary of Windsor. He made many classical translations, but is chiefly remembered as the attributed author of the first significant verse comedy in English, Ralph Roister Doister (c.1553, printed 1566). |
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