academic drama (also called school drama), a dramatic tradition which arose from the *RENAISSANCE, in which the works of Plautus,
Terence, and other ancient dramatists were performed in schools and colleges, at first in Latin but later also in *VERNACULAR adaptations composed by schoolmasters under the influence of * HUMANISM. This tradition produced the earliest English comedies, notably Ralph Roister Doister (c.1552) by the schoolmaster Nicholas Udall.
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