The play was printed in 1549 by Johann Eichorn, a printer and publisher in Frankfurt (Oder).
While Philomates eagerly attends lectures and learns, the two others go to the pub and gamble away their money.
Then Acrates is injured in a brawl, while Acolastus impregnates the innkeeper's daughter and has to marry her.
Lachmann called it a plagiarism,[4] since it largely corresponds to the original and also bears the almost identical title: Studentes sive Comoedia de vita Studiosorum autore Ignoto Peerdeklontio.
[5] Acrates is here called Isgeestus and the final scene has also been considerably changed.