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Article: The role of folk humor in seventeenth-century receptions of Beaumont's 'The Knight of the Burning Pestle."
- Article from:
- Philological Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 1997
- Author:
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Since its first performance at the Blackfriars some time between 1607 and 1609,(1) Francis Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle has undergone the most radical rehabilitation of any play in the remarkably voluminous Beaumont and Fletcher canon. Coming off an "utterly rejected" eight-day initial run,(2) The Knight suffered an ignominious popular neglect throughout much of the seventeenth century, one which vociferously contradicted the repute of the most cherished playwrights during the century.(3) While Beaumont and Fletcher's Philaster (c. 1608-1610) and The Scornful Lady (c. 1613-1616) merited at least nine and seven respective quarto publications in the seventeenth ...
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