Knight
of the Burning Pestle
The
plot is almost impossible to follow. A group of
actors is putting on a play called "The London
Merchant" when a couple of real merchants
from the audience take offense and insist that
their apprentice be given a part. They then proceed
to make requests -- a fight scene, a seduction
scene, a May Dance scene, a death scene -- as the
apprentice, who has been transformed (for no apparent
reason that in any way fits with the plot of "The
London Merchant") into the Knight of the Burning
Pestle, interrupts the increasingly frustrated "London
Merchant" cast with interpolated, "improvised" scenes.
 
(continued)
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