The Knight of the Burning Pestle

by John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont

Book Overview

'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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0713650699
• ISBN13: 9780713650693
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.7"