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• W41222746 abstract "Since its first performance at Blackfriars some time between 1607 and 1609,(1) Francis Beaumont's The Knight of Burning Pestle has undergone most radical rehabilitation of any play in remarkably voluminous Beaumont and Fletcher canon. Coming off an utterly eight-day initial run,(2) The Knight suffered an ignominious popular neglect throughout much of seventeenth century, one which vociferously contradicted repute of most cherished playwrights during 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 seventeenth century alone, as well as numerous public and court revivals, The Knight was not performed on a public stage again until a brief revival in 1662 and was only published twice after 1613; play even missed inclusion in important Beaumont and Fletcher first folio of 1647.(4) In this century, however, The Knight enjoys nearly universal theatrical and critical praise, distinguished by most scholars as the most celebrated play in canon.(5) Hailed by one earlier critic as Beaumont's laugh at naivete' and rough manners of citizenry in public theaters, play more recently receives attention for its myriad jabs at egregious bad taste of rising burgher class, foul-mouthed . . . men who swaggered around Jacobean London with their newly gained titles of `knight' purchased for forty pounds, or ignorant and unruly citizens who rebuked glorification as an exclusive right of feudal nobility.(6) In spite of these and several other considerations of The Knight, no study to my knowledge adequately explores why play was so distasteful to its first audience that only one revival -- a one-night private performance by Queen Henrietta's Company at St. James in 1635 -- was attempted in following sixty years.(7) Recent scholarship also ignores remarkably consistent, however sporadically appearing, literary productions and reproductions generated from play by various pro-royalist writers after performance by Queen Henrietta's company and into Restoration. Critical examination of these productions and their intended audiences goes a long way in explaining why play so summarily was rejected and, paradoxically, lays to rest a false perception that The Knight spent seventeenth century in hibernation. This essay aims to explore almost literal underground status of The Knight of Burning Pestle -- in terms of Beaumont's rhetorical burying of folk humor, first audience's subsequent smother[ing] (Burre 8) of play, and as yet overlooked regeneration of its impacted rehearsals of popular culture by factions sympathetic to royal privilege. My choice of term underground in discussing this play's seventeenth-century reception underscores a heretofore unresolved quandary concerning its popular accessibility. Whereas our century has (dis)covered The Knight by inexhaustibly praising its Pirandello-esque representation of a splintering and transforming Jacobean culture, we have failed to take into account a rather surreptitious rehabilitation during its own century. Although Beaumont's consistent hostility toward an intrusive folk humor strain, emanating from George's, Nell's, and Rafe's repeated stage directives, undeniably led to its popular failure, play never completely descended into oblivion. In fact, its popular failure contrasts sharply with a unique resurrection and participation in later royalists' appropriating popular literary genres for their own propagandistic purposes during war years. As it stood, Beaumont's satiric attitude toward general populace throughout The Knight afforded acting companies no alternative but dismissal from popular stage presentation; concurrently, Beaumont and Fletcher's compelling reputations as royalist playwrights earned it a second look as an invitingly malleable text, wherein its satiric constitution could be reformulated and re-presented as popular romance -- while self-aggrandizingly carrying with it revered Beaumont and Fletcher name. …" @default.
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• W41222746 title "The Role of Folk Humor in Seventeenth-Century Receptions of Beaumont's 'The Knight of the Burning Pestle." @default.
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