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19 relations: Alazon, Brice Stratford, Comedy (drama), English language, Farce, Glynne Wickham, London, Medieval theatre, Merchant, Morality play, Nicholas Udall, Plautus, Schoolmaster, Scribe, Secularity, Stock character, Terence, The Interlude of the Student and the Girl, Widow.
Alazon
Alazṓn (ἀλαζών) is one of three stock characters in comedy of the theatre of ancient Greece.
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Brice Stratford
Brice Stratford is an English director and actor-manager.
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Comedy (drama)
A comedy is entertainment consisting of jokes intended to make an audience laugh.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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Farce
In theatre, a farce is a comedy that aims at entertaining the audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, and thus improbable.
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Glynne Wickham
Glynne William Gladstone Wickham (15 May 15 1922–27 January 2004) was a British Shakespearean and theatre scholar.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Medieval theatre
Medieval theatre refers to theatrical performance in the period between the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century A.D. and the beginning of the Renaissance in approximately the 15th century A.D. Medieval Theatre covers all drama produced in Europe over that thousand-year period and refers to a variety of genres, including liturgical drama, mystery plays, morality plays, farces and masques.
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Merchant
A merchant is a person who trades in commodities produced by other people.
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Morality play
The morality play is a genre of Medieval and early Tudor theatrical entertainment.
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Nicholas Udall
Nicholas Udall (or Uvedale Udal, Woodall, or other variations) (1504 – 23 December 1556) was an English playwright, cleric, and schoolmaster, the author of Ralph Roister Doister, generally regarded as the first comedy written in the English language.
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Plautus
Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254 – 184 BC), commonly known as Plautus, was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period.
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Schoolmaster
The word schoolmaster, or simply master, formerly referred to a male school teacher.
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Scribe
A scribe is a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of automatic printing.
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Secularity
Secularity (adjective form secular, from Latin saeculum meaning "worldly", "of a generation", "temporal", or a span of about 100 years) is the state of being separate from religion, or of not being exclusively allied with or against any particular religion.
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Stock character
A stock character is a stereotypical fictional character in a work of art such as a novel, play, or film, whom audiences recognize from frequent recurrences in a particular literary tradition.
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Terence
Publius Terentius Afer (c. 195/185 – c. 159? BC), better known in English as Terence, was a Roman playwright during the Roman Republic, of Berber descent.
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The Interlude of the Student and the Girl
The Interlude of the Student and the Girl (Interludium de clerico et puella) is one of the earliest known secular plays in English, first performed c. 1300.
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Widow
A widow is a woman whose spouse has died and a widower is a man whose spouse has died.
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