The Knight Of The Burning Pestle

Author : Francis Beaumont
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719069673
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Knight of the Burning Pestle written by Francis Beaumont and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This play is a celebration of London life and theatre in which Francis Beaumont's comic genius is given free rein. This edition presents an accurate modern-spelling text, with full historical and critical introduction and a detailed commentary. It also places "The Knight" in the contexts of Jacobean comedy and the work of the children's theatrical troupes. An appendix on the songs and a concern for details of production make this edition especially useful to actors and directors, as well as students of Renaissance drama.

Author : Francis Beaumont
Publisher : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 : 9780713650693
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Knight of the Burning Pestle written by Francis Beaumont and published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2002-09-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Let him kill a lion with a pestle, husband; let him kill a lion with a pestle.' So exclaims the Grocer's wife who, with her husband and servants, is attending one of the London's elite playhouses where a theatre comany has just begun to perform. Peeved at the fact that all the plays they see are satires on the lives and values of London's citizenry, the Grocer and his wife interrupt and demand a play that instead contains chivalric quests and courtly love. What's more, they nominate their apprentice Rafe to take on the hero's role of the knight in this entirely new play. The author, Francis Beaumont, ends up not just satirising the grocers' naive taste for romance but parodying his own example of citizen comedy. This play-within-a-play becomes a pastiche of contemporary plays that scorned those who were not courtiers or at least gentlemen or ladies. Like Cervantes in Don Quixote, Beaumont exposes the folly of those that take representations for realities, but also celebrates their idealism and love of adventure. The editor, Michael Hattaway, is editor of plays by Shakespeare and Jonson as well as of several volumes of critical essays, and author of Elizabethan Popular Theatre, Hamlet: The Critics Debate, and Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature. He is Professor Emeritus of English Literature in the University of Sheffield.

Author : Francis Beaumont
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The knight of the burning pestle [by F. Beaumont and J. Fletcher.]. written by Francis Beaumont and published by . This book was released on 1613 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francisco de Morais
Publisher : London, Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
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Download or read book Palmerin of England written by Francisco de Morais and published by London, Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. This book was released on 1807 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
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Download or read book Every Man in His Humour written by Ben Jonson and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francis Beaumont
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
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Download or read book The Knight of the Burning Pestle written by Francis Beaumont and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A burlesque of knight errantry and a parody of Heywood's "Four Prentice's of London "from the English Elizabethan dramatist.

Author : Sir George Etherege
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
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Download or read book She Wou'd If She Cou'd written by Sir George Etherege and published by . This book was released on with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Fry
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822214311
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lady's Not for Burning written by Christopher Fry and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1994-10 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Thomas Mendip, a discharged soldier, weary of the world and eager to leave it, comes to a small town, announces he has committed murder and demands to be hanged. A philosophical humorist, Thomas is annoyed when the officials oppose his r

Author : Dieter Mehl
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351910698
Total Pages : 256 pages
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Download or read book Plotting Early Modern London written by Dieter Mehl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the publication of Brian Gibbons's Jacobean City Comedy thirty-five years ago, the urban satires by Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton attained their 'official status as a Renaissance subgenre' that was distinct, by its farcical humour and ironic tone, from 'citizen comedy' or 'London drama' more generally. This retrospective genre-building has proved immensely fruitful in the study of early modern English drama; and although city comedies may not yet rival Shakespeare's plays in the amount of editorial work and critical acclaim they receive, both the theatrical contexts and the dramatic complexity of the genre itself, and its interrelations with Shakespearean drama justly command an increasing level of attention. Looking at a broad range of plays written between the 1590s and the 1630s - master-pieces of the genre like Eastward Ho, A Trick to Catch the Old One, The Dutch Courtesan and The Devil is an Ass, blends of romance and satire like The Shoemaker's Holiday and The Knight of the Burning Pestle, and bourgeois oddities in the Shakespearean manner like The London Prodigal - the twelve essays in this volume re-examine city comedy in the light of recently foregrounded historical contexts such as early modern capitalism, urban culture, the Protestant Reformation, and playhouse politics. Further, they explore the interrelations between city comedy and Shakespearean comedy both from the perspective of author rivalry and in terms of modern adaptations: the twenty-first-century concept of 'popular Shakespeare' (above all in the movie sector) seems to realign the comparatively time- and placeless Shakespearean drama with the gritty, noisy and bustling urban scene that has been city comedy's traditional preserve.

Author : Andrew Bozio
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019258572X
Total Pages : 226 pages
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Download or read book Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage written by Andrew Bozio and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage argues that environment and embodied thought continually shaped one another in the performance of early modern English drama. It demonstrates this, first, by establishing how characters think through their surroundings — not only how they orient themselves within unfamiliar or otherwise strange locations, but also how their environs function as the scaffolding for perception, memory, and other forms of embodied thought. It then contends that these moments of thinking through place theorise and thematise the work that playgoers undertook in reimagining the stage as the setting of the dramatic fiction. By tracing the relationship between these two registers of thought in such plays as The Malcontent, Dido Queen of Carthage, Tamburlaine, King Lear, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, and Bartholomew Fair, this book shows that drama makes visible the often invisible means by which embodied subjects acquire a sense of their surroundings. It also reveals how, in doing so, theatre altered the way that playgoers perceived, experienced, and imagined place in early modern England.