The Knight of the Burning Pestle

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The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a satirical early 17th-century English play that parodies chivalric romance and theatrical conventions through its meta-theatrical, comic treatment of a grocer’s apprentice turned would-be knight.

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instanceOf English Renaissance drama
comedy
metatheatrical work
stage play
author Francis Beaumont
centralCharacterOccupation grocer’s apprentice
centralCharacterRole would-be knight
countryOfOrigin England
dramaticForm five-act play
dramaticPeriod Jacobean era
linked to: Stuart period
featuresCharacter George
Humphrey
Jasper
Luce
Nell
Rafe
Venturewell
firstPerformanceDate 1607
1608
firstPublicationDate 1613
genre comedy
metatheatre
satire
hasTitleCharacter The Knight of the Burning Pestle
influencedBy chivalric romance tradition
language English
literaryMovement Jacobean drama
literaryTechnique burlesque
farce
parody
notableFor comic treatment of citizen class
early use of meta-theatrical devices
originalMedium stage
originalTheatre Blackfriars Theatre
originalTheatreCompany Children of the Blackfriars
parodies chivalric romance
theatrical conventions
periodOfSetting early 17th century
setting London
linked to: London, England
structure play-within-a-play
theatricalDevice audience intervention on stage
breaking the fourth wall
theme critique of commercialism
illusion versus reality
parody of knighthood
satire of bourgeois taste
timePeriod early 17th century

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Francis Beaumont wrote The Knight of the Burning Pestle
Beaumont and Fletcher notableWork The Knight of the Burning Pestle
The Knight of the Burning Pestle hasTitleCharacter The Knight of the Burning Pestle