roister

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At Roister in Chicago, bar-height seating accounts for about half of the restaurant’s seating.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 4, 2018

In England the mischievous choir boys put on simple playlets, which in turn gave place to the interludes, like Ralph Roister Bolster and Gammer Gurton's Needle, hilarious comedies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ralph Roister Doister, the first English comedy, 509.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

Lacebo dilexi, Maister Roister Doister wil streight go home and die, Our Lorde Iesus Christ his soule haue mercie vpon: Thus you see to day a man, to morrow Iohn.

From Roister Doister Written, probably also represented, before 1553. Carefully edited from the unique copy, now at Eton College by Arber, Edward

The earliest of such attempts which we know is the comedy of Ralph Roister Doister, written by Nicholas Udall for Eton boys at some time between 1534 and 1541.

From An Introduction to Shakespeare by MacCracken, H. N.