Editing Nicholas Udall (section)

==Works==
Udall translated part of the ''[[Apophthegmatum opus|Apophthegms]]'' by [[Erasmus]], and translated in part and oversaw the English version of the ''[[Paraphrases of Erasmus#English|Paraphrases of Erasmus]]'', published in 1548 as ''[[The first tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the newe testamente]]''.  Other works he translated were [[Pietro Martire Vermigli|Pietro Martire]]'s ''Discourse on the Eucharist'' and Thomas Gemini's ''Anatomia''.  His most famous work, the play ''[[Ralph Roister Doister]]'', was probably presented to [[Mary I of England|Queen Mary]] as an entertainment around 1553, but not published until 1566.

With [[John Leland (antiquary)|John Leland]], he wrote a number of songs in Latin and English for pageants marking the coronation of [[Anne Boleyn]] on 31 May 1533, using his [[Latinized name]] "Udallus".<ref name="luminarium1"/><ref>[http://dev.hil.unb.ca/Texts/EPD/UNB/view-works.cgi?c=udallnic.1632&pos=1 Udall], unb.ca {{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In the same year, he published ''Flovres for Latine Spekynge'', a collection of material from his comedy and works by the Roman poet [[Terence]] put together for his pupils.<ref name=LE/>

Udall wrote a propaganda tract in response to the [[Prayer Book Rebellion]] in 1549, ''An Answer to the Articles of the Commoners of Devonshire and Cornwall Declaring to the Same How they have been Seduced by Evil Persons''. <ref group="Notes">In contemporary spelling and typesetting: "An answer to the articles of the comoners of Deuonshere and Cornewall declaring to the same howe they haue ben sedused by Euell persons".</ref> This tract has sometimes been wrongly attributed to [[Philip Nichols (evangelical writer)|Philip Nichols]].<ref>Jonathan McGovern, [https://academic.oup.com/nq/article-abstract/65/1/24/4796900?redirectedFrom=PDF @Nicholas Udall as Author of a Manuscript Answer to the Rebels of Devonshire and Cornwall, 1549"], ''Notes & Queries'' 65, no. 1 (2018), 24-25.</ref>

It has been argued that Udall is the author of the dramatic interlude ''[[Respublica (play)|Respublica]]'', which was acted before Queen Mary in 1553.<ref>Stewart Mottram, ''Empire and Nation in Early English Renaissance Literature'' (2008), pp. 170-208.</ref>