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{{Short description|English playwright, cleric and schoolmaster}}
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'''Nicholas Udall''' (or '''Uvedale'''{{sfn|Lee|1899}} '''Udal''', '''Woodall''', or other variations{{sfn|Leach|1911}}) (1504 – 23 December 1556) was an [[England|English]] playwright, cleric, schoolmaster, the author of ''[[Ralph Roister Doister]]'', generally regarded as the first [[comedy]] written in the [[English language]].<ref name="tudorplace.com.ar">{{Cite web|url=http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/NicholasUdall.htm|title=Nicholas UDALL}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|certain=y|reason=self published website; and Jorge H. Castelli is not an expert|date=January 2015}}<ref name="luminarium1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/udallbio.htm|title=The Life of Nicholas Udall (1504—1556) &#91;Biography&#93;}}</ref>