About this book Read this bookRalph Roister Doister By Nicholas Udall

 About this book Read this bookRalph Roister Doister By Nicholas Udall: "These plays belong to a type quite distinct from the morality in form and spirit They are set debates or pleadings on abstract questions dialogues which depend for their interest upon the outcome of a conflict of wits the adjudication of a case in equity not at all upon a continuous and very little upon incidental dramatic action In Witty and Witless the thesis is whether it is better to be a fool or a wise man in Love the pains and pleasurps of love in Wether the hearing of pleas preferred to Jupiter by a number of his human subjects who desire certain kinds of weather for their profit or pleasure each of course wishing something different a gentleman mer"