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<publisher>London: Printed by N[icholas] O[kes] for I. S., 1635</publisher> <description>The Knight of the Burning Pestle is the only play written solely by Beaumont that is known to exist. In the first edition of 1613 a prefatory note by the printer, Nicholas Okes, suggests that a reason why the play was &#147;utterly rejected&#148; when it was first acted (ca. 1607) was the failure of the audience to understand &#147;the privy marke of Ironie about it.&#148; Audiences began to realize that rather than being yet another mock-heroic play, popular at the time, Beaumont had brilliantly satirized the plots and rhetoric of those plays. These included tales of chivalric deeds in exotic settings, charitable acts of London citizens, and plots involving the triumph of true love over the objections of London&#146;s merchant-class parents.</description> <author>Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher</author> <number>181</number> <name>The Knight Of the Bvrning Pestle</name>