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The Knight of the Burning Pestle


Book Description
Rarely was the device of the play-within-the-play used to more hilarious satirical effect than in this Jacobean burlesque of romantic knight-errantry, which by the late sixteenth-century had been adopted by London's civic elite to ennoble themselves in literature and spectacle. An upright London citizen and his wife `interrupt' a performance of `The London Merchant' at one of London's prestig... More
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PublisherA&C Black
BindingKindle Edition (51 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages120
ISBN-10B003U2T984
Publication Date01/01/2009
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About Francis Beaumont (Author) : Francis Beaumont is a published author. Some of the published credits of Francis Beaumont include The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon: Volume 8 (Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fl... more
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