Question

First pure English Comedy is ..............

• A. The Shoemaker's Holiday
• B. Ralph Roister Doister
• C. Every Man in His Humour
• D. The Alchemist

Answer 1

Answer:

B. Ralph Roister Doister

• Ralph Roister Doister is important historically because it is the earliest “proper” English stage comedy, having been written somewhere in the early 1550’s.