The Knight of the Burning Pestle

Francis Beaumont, "The Knight of the Burning Pestle"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1984220535 | EPUB | pages: 160 | 2.9 mb
The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a play in five acts by Francis Beaumont, first performed at Blackfriars Theatre in 1607 and first published in a quarto in 1613. It is the first whole parody (or pastiche) play in English. The play is a satire on chivalric romances in general, similar to Don Quixote, and a parody of Thomas Heywood’s The Four Prentices of London and Thomas Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday. It breaks the fourth wall from its outset.