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Francis Beaumont

Francis Beaumont. The Knight of the Burning Pestle. KBP: Nuts & Bolts, Contexts. author - date - genre English Renaissance drama: authors roots audiences locations. KBP: Drama and Language. blank verse pentameter couplets other poetic forms prose and its special functions

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Francis Beaumont

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  1. Francis Beaumont The Knight of the Burning Pestle

  2. KBP:Nuts & Bolts, Contexts • author - date - genre • English Renaissance drama: • authors • roots • audiences • locations

  3. KBP: Drama and Language • blank verse • pentameter couplets • other poetic forms • prose and its special functions • other common dramatic devices

  4. KBP:broad goals • critique of bourgeois tastes (class satire) • parody of old-fashioned romances • similar to Don Quixote • literary in-jokes, allusions • compare Shakespeare in Love

  5. KBP:Language and Themes • much attention to form & content of language • (ad)venturing: • merchants, knights, young lovers • money or mirth as life-goal???

  6. KBP:Stagecraft • mock death, near suicide • ghost scene • tricks and disguises • fight scenes • play-within (next to)-a-play: • [plot - subplot] - [counterplot]

  7. KBP:Play’s end • comic reconciliation, forgiveness, betrothal • takes place through mirth • Rafe’s death -- no loose ends!! • last words: be merry, applaud

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