If there had been a little less of this, the piece would have been much improved; but even as it is, it is a capital example of farce, just as Ralph roister Doister is of a rather rudimentary kind of regular comedy.
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury
Nicholas Udall, for example, who had a large share in the translation of Erasmus's Paraphrase on the New Testament, also translated parts of Terence and is best known as the author of Ralph roister Doister.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
Ralph roister Doister Udall.
"A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume I."
R. Dodsley