The Knight of the Burning Pestle
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title:
The Knight of the Burning Pestle
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The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a play in five acts by Francis Beaumont, first performed at Blackfriars Theatre in 1607 and published in a quarto in 1613. It is the earliest whole parody 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.
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1607 play by Francis Beaumont
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knight_of_the_Burning_Pestle
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2004-10-03T21:20:32Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T15:44:07Z
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