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	The Knight of the Burning Pestle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a play by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (likely almost entirely by Beaumont) first published in 1613 which is notable as the first parody play in English.
		He has a burning pestle on his shield as a heraldic device and has to undertake the daring rescue of patients being held by a barber named Barbaroso.
		The meta-fictional plot is intercut with the main plot of the interrupted play, where Jasper, a merchant's apprentice, is in love with his master's daughter, Luce, and must elope with her to save her from the arranged marriage with Humphrey.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Knight_of_the_Burning_Pestle (401 words)

	Beaumont's "The Knight of the Burning Pestle:" a dramatic analysis / by Brian Kunde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		"The Knight of the Burning Pestle" is a play written in 1607 by Francis Beaumont, an English playwright during the reign of James I, and a younger contemporary of William Shakespeare.
		They constantly interfere with the play, forcing the Players to incorporate a new character; a knight who will uphold the honor of the grocery business and "do valiant deeds." This is the "Knight of the Burning Pestle" of the title.
		The aimless quest is forced into a crisis by interference -- the "invincible knight" loses a "battle" with Jasper -- which in turn forces the Grocer to improvise a climactic mock- heroic fight with a giant to redeem his protege.
	www.stanford.edu /~bkunde/fb-press/articles/rpkbp.html (2045 words)

	Marin Shakespeare Company: Production Spotlights
		First performed around 1607, The Knight of the Burning Pestle was the work of Beaumont and Fletcher, whose 34 plays between 1605 and 1612 were published in a Folio in 1647 with an additional 18 plays included in the second Folio of 1679.
		The Knight of the Burning Pestle is considered by some to be the first "post-modernist drama" and has been likened to Six Characters in Search of an Author and other 20th century plays that self-consciously break the fourth wall.
		Despite its initial reception, The Knight of the Burning Pestle has been rediscovered in an age more endeared to satire and metatheatrical flair, and has become a popular if still relatively rare offering in the past 100 years.
	www.marinshakespeare.org /pages/spotlights.htm (654 words)

	Silliness grinds 'Burning Pestle' comedy down
		It's always pleasant to see actors enjoying themselves onstage, but less so when they (and their friends and family in the audience) seem to be having a better time than you are.
		Written about 1607 and generally attributed to Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (though Fletcher's participation is in doubt), it's a play-within-a-play- within-a-play lampoon of two forms of theater -- the up-and-coming bourgeoise comedy and the heroic tragedy -- and of the Shakespearean audience.
		"Pestle" opens as "The London Merchant," a comedy in which a love-smitten apprentice outwits his merchant master to run off with the boss' daughter, with a number of other subplots thrown in.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/18/DDG5VDOSKU1.DTL&... (730 words)

	Knight of the Burning Pestle
		When The Knight of the Burning Pestle was published, the publisher Walter Burre was afraid that Beaumont and Fletcher's play would be seen as a rip-off of the ever-popular Don Quixote, the English translation of which had been printed in 1608.
		It is not only the role of the misguided knight that connects The Knight of the Burning Pestle with Don Quixote.
		Just as Don Quixote, in part one (for that is all that existed at this time) is a novel within a novel, The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a play within a play.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~david/knightof1.htm (307 words)

	Reading of Knight of the Burning Pestle celebrates productionÍs 100th birthday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In 1903, the Stanford English Club presented a production of The Knight of the Burning Pestle in the old Assembly Hall on the outer Quad.
		The play was performed March 5 and 7 and, according to reports at the time, came off splendidly.
		The 50th anniversary of the production of The Knight of the Burning Pestle was celebrated in this 1953 production.
	www.stanford.edu /group/news/report/news/2003/march12/pestle-312.html (411 words)

	pestle
		You are she who, as it is written, appears in beauty, and your virginal body is all holy, all chaste, entirely the dwelling place of God, so that it is henceforth completely exempt from dissolution into dust.
		Playwright Francis Beaumont's original intention in The Knight of the Burning Pestle was to satirize the rising class of nouveau riche and to show how chivalry had become snobbery.
		The pestle is a stick used for pounding and grinding.
	www.buyandselldb.com /pestle.html (593 words)

	The Knight of the Burning Pestle by Francis Beaumont
		The Knight of the Burning Pestle by Francis Beaumont
		They cast their apprentice Rafe in an heroic leading role as the gallant Knight whose banner bears the symbol of the grocer's trade, a pestle.
		Written in 1607 by Francis Beaumont at the age of 23 who succeeded Shakespeare as the chief dramatist to the King's Men, The Knight of the Burning Pestle was one of the earliest anarchic English comedies.
	www.methuen.co.uk /titles.php/itemcode/1183 (171 words)

	The British Theatre Guide : Reviews - The Knight of the Burning Pestle (Barbican Theatre)
		He takes on the honorary title of Knight of the Burning Pestle although, to the uninitiated, his weapon looks more like a baseball bat.
		Cheered on from the audience by the loud grocer and his common wife (Felix Dexter and Ingrid Lacey), Rafe gets involved in increasingly difficult tasks leading up to a romantic - and, in his case, sad - ending with lovers united via a coffin and the guest from the audience ready for one.
		Even so, both Young Vic and the director are to be congratulated in reviving this play with song and dance and allowing a new generation to see the work of a playwright whose experimental writing still seems fresh almost 400 years after his early death, in the same year as Shakespeare.
	www.britishtheatreguide.info /reviews/burningpestle-rev.htm (580 words)

	Prompt Corner review of Richard II / The Lion And The Jewel / The Knight Of The Burning Pestle / Epitaph For George ...
		Richard II / The Lion And The Jewel / The Knight Of The Burning Pestle /
		It’s true that Francis Beaumont’s play, with its multifarious parodies, pastiches and breaches of the fourth wall, seems much more interesting as a prospect than when you’re actually watching it; nevertheless, I remain convinced that it ought to be possible to give it as amusing and vibrant a staging as it is claimed to merit.
		It was an environment in which Mackmin couldn’t win: the more moderate approach to the play’s humour which she by and large adopted seemed inadequate to fill the space, whereas the later, broader measures appeared desperate, and still didn’t fill it.
	www.cix.co.uk /~shutters/reviews/05153.htm (1236 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| Arts critics \| The Knight of the Burning Pestle
		Rafe Spall (Rafe) in The Knight Of The Burning Pestle
		There are moments of geniality in the portrayal of London's citizens, and some touching scenes in the romantic plot, but it is a desperate evening that doesn't so much end as slowly congeal, like an unwanted Christmas dinner.
		28.09.2005: Dominic Dromgoole on The Knight of the Burning Pestle
	arts.guardian.co.uk /critic/review/0,1169,1582375,00.html (240 words)

	Beaumont
		The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a very silly play with a great deal of verbal wit and situational humor that is, of course, four hundred years out of date, but which you can still appreciate if you are attentive to the situation and the characterizations.
		This play belongs to a genre very popular at the time (though Shakespeare did not write in it) usually called "city comedy" or "citizen comedy" since it deals not with kings and heroes, but with ordinary London citizens of the day.
		The title of The Knight of the Burning Pestle, however, clearly indicates a "romance" play of spectacular adventure, magic, and bizarre events in sprawling storylines (which plays Shakespeare did write: think of The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, etc.).
	f00.middlebury.edu /LI101C/beaumont.html (458 words)

	Knight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		This is the first time this has happened since the War; so naturally we are waiting with crossed fingers and bated breath.
		It will be an exciting occassion for the play is Beaumont and Fletcher's "The Knight of the Burning Pestle" (what title could be more Morganian?) - that grand old roisterous comedy which should be natural for a school boy cast.
		A great deal of hard work has been put in by Mr Morris and his myrmidons and they deserve the resounding success which we trust they will have.
	www.digifutures.org /schools/Knight.htm (164 words)

	The Knight of the Burning Pestle
		He and his wife end up seated on stage (in period, a place of honor), and their apprentice is cast as "The Knight of the Burning Pestle" (the pestle and mortar being symbols of the Merchant's Guild...).
		Photos: Photos by Hal Ravn are at the West Kingdom History site: Photos of The Knight of the Burning Pestle.
		Cast of the "Knight of the Burning Pestle"
	www.goldenstag.net /players/play9.htm (597 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews: San Francisco - "The Knight of the Burning Pestle - 7/24/05
		(A pestle was used by grocers to grind substances in a mortar; however in the Bard's day, the pronunciation of "pestle" was identical to "pizzle.") But the Bard did not write this "citizen comedy"; it was written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, contemporaries of Shakespeare.
		The plot of The Knight of the Burning Pestle is loose to say the least.
		The Knight of the Burning Pestle runs in repertoire with Two Gentlemen from Verona through August 14th at the Forest Meadows Amphitheatre located on Grand Ave, Dominican University of California, San Rafael, California.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /regional/sanfran/s663.html (856 words)

	Knight of the Burning Pestle Discussion Questions
		The Knight of the Burning Pestle: Discussion Questions
		As you read the play, watch for as many echoes of other things we have read as you can (as well as other echoes you recognize from reading outside of class, at college or in high school or wherever).
		But all of you practice with the whole passage beforehand.
	www.msu.edu /course/eng/310a/snapshot.afs/tavrmina/SS99/kbp.htm (362 words)

	The Knight of the Burning Pestle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		There is an errant knight played by Darren Bridgett who is really an apprentice grocer with dreams of playing the part of a knight, but the story focuses more on the errant love stories and family intrigues of other characters.
		The whole play is more like a long television sitcom barely held together by the jokes, but what’s lacking in the script, is made up for by the enthusiasm of the actors.
		Don’t be surprised if you find an errant knight pretending to barf in your hat or lie in your lap or pick you as the lady he fights his imaginary battles for.
	home.pon.net /kashimba/pestle.html (246 words)

	Barbican Theatre, The Knight Of The Burning Pestle \| Official London Theatre Guide
		When a healthy grocer and his wife are unhappy about the play they are watching, they decide to do something about it.
		They take to the stage, create a new storyline and cast their son, Rafe, as the leading male, a knight whose banner bears the symbol of the grocer’s trade; a pestle.
		The Knight Of The Burning Pestle is directed by Anna Mackmin, the young director who is currently associate director at the Gate.
	www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk /shows/display?contentId=84955 (785 words)

	The Knight of the Burning Pestle (V,ii.): Monologue
		NOTE: The Knight of the Burning Pestle is generally considered to have been written about 1607/8.
		It is now a public domain work and may be performed without royalties.
		I have no more to say but this: stand to your tacklings [3], lads, and show to the world you can as well brandish a sword or shake an apron.
	www.theatrehistory.com /plays/burningpestlemono.html (297 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Barbican, London
		This autumn's Young Genius season - co-presented by the Young Vic, the Barbican and regional theatres - promises great things: a crop of plays written or devised by phenomenal twenty-somethings.
		But The Knight Of The Burning Pestle - which I caught at Colchester's Mercury Theatre prior to its London run - is a shocking disappointment.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /theatre/reviews/article314722.ece (218 words)

	The Knight of the Burning Pestle: Further reading (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Knight of the Burning Pestle: Further reading
		English 364: English Renaissance Drama > The Knight of the Burning Pestle > Further reading
		"Dramatic Form and Dramatic Imagination in Beaumont's the Knight of the Burning Pestle." English Literary Renaissance 8 (1978): 67-84.
	www.engl.uvic.ca /Faculty/MBHomePage/engl364/pestlefurther.html (91 words)

	The Knight of the Burning Pestle, a CurtainUp London review
		Yet in remembrance of my former trade, upon my shield shall be portrayed a burning pestle, and I will be called the Knight o'th' Burning Pestle.
		The Knight of the Burning Pestle is the enterprisingly radical work of a 23 year old Francis Beaumont.
		Although best known for his collaborations with fellow Jacobean playwright John Fletcher, Beaumont wrote this play independently and in his first solo effort, boldly challenges dramatic convention and satirises theatrical fashion.
	www.curtainup.com /knightoftheburningpestle.html (755 words)

	Shenandoah Shakespeare Express At SLU Oct. 18-24 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Tickets for all shows are $3 and are available at the E.J. Noble University Center main desk and the Brewer Bookstore.
		This year's tour marks SSE's first presentation of a Renaissance play by a contemporary of Shakespeare's, Francis Beaumont.
		The Knight of the Burning Pestle, a treasure of theatre and acting lore, is a rollicking comedy based on the premise that the Elizabethan/Jacobean audience is expected to be part of the play; it is for this reason the perfect choice for the SSE's first non-Shakespeare play from the English Renaissance.
	www.stlawu.edu /news/sse.html (171 words)

	Stage Mananagement Graduating July 2005
		Manager – The Madness of Esme and Shaz, DSM – The Knight of the Burning Pestle.
		– The Knight of the Burning Pestle/Into the Woods.
		The Rivals, LX Crew – The Knight of the Burning Pestle / Into the Woods.
	www.rada.org /grad05/sm05.html (1316 words)

	The Knight of the Burning Pestle tickets - The Knight of the Burning Pestle information - San Francisco
		The Knight of the Burning Pestle tickets - The Knight of the Burning Pestle information - San Francisco
		Worthy of Monty Python (with its madcap humor, downright silliness and a hit parade of music) this comedy is perfect for all ages.
		For more information on The Knight of the Burning Pestle: www.marinshakespeare.org
	www.theatermania.com /content/show.cfm/show/112161 (164 words)

	Jacobean Drama: Summaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		A grocer, George, and his wife interrupt from the audience and demand a play where their apprentice Ralph can have a part.
		He becomes a Grocer-errant (instead of Knight-errant) with a burning pestle on his shield, and rescues the prisoners of Barbarossa (a barber-surgeon).
		The original play continues at the same time, with the story of how a merchant's apprentice Jasper Merrythought wins his master's daughter Luce Venturewell.
	www.sogang.ac.kr /~anthony/17cdrama.htm (3678 words)

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