The True Historie of the Knyght of the Burning Pestle Full of Mirthe Delight
The True Historie of the Knyght of the Burning Pestle Full of Mirthe Delight
Raymond Macdonald Alden
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Here some of the drop-scenes appear to have been kept; from here, in one play of 1592, Venus was per- haps "let down from the top of the stage"; and in the door or window of this lodge appears the trumpeter who announces the time for the play to begin. It is three o'clock of the afternoon. The pit is already full of spectators, talking and cracking nuts together, wondering it may be why the sign over the stage reads "The London Merchant" when the playbills all about town announced "The Knight o...f the Burn- ing Pestle. " Boatloads of later comers are hurrying over the Thames, and they can not only hear the trumpet from the tower but perhaps see the flag hanging from it. When it has sounded twice you may see the young gallants and their pages coming on the stage, lighting their tobacco and settling themselves to show their cloaks to the best advantage, while the aristocrats in the boxes do the same. There is a murmur of expectation; then a third blast from the tower ; and the Prologue boy, in cloak and wreath, comes on to introduce the play.
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