Aristippus, or The Joviall Philosopher

Two of Randolph’s university plays—Aristippus; or, The Joviall Philosopher and The Conceited Pedlar, both comedies—were performed at Cambridge and were published in 1630. Aristippus is a debate about the relative virtues of ale and sack, full of the terms of Aristotelian logic and innumerable puns drawn from Randolph’s Classical…