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Encyclopedia entry: Stevenson, William
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- The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
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Stevenson, William
(?–1575), Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, believed to have been the author of
Gammer Gurton's Needle
, a play which, with
Ralph Roister Doister
by
Udall
, stands at the beginning of English comedy. No definite date can be assigned for its performance but it was probably given in Cambridge between 1552 and 1563. It was printed in 1575, the year of Stevenson's death, and may be identical with a play referred to as
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... ... males, one female. [Samuel French] Gammer Gurton's Needle is one of the earliest comedies ... farcical plot centers on the loss of Gammer Gurton's needle while she is mending Hodge ... and steal a ham), Diccon tells Gammer Gurton that her neighbor, Dame Chat, has ...
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