Citizen's Theater

The Knight of the Burning Pestle is set up much like Norden's map with the citizenry framing the play. In the very beginning the people object to the original play because it does not cater to them enough so they start to invent their own drama. I can see that this play could have had the lines of two different dramas and the commentary, but not let the two dramas meet. In this way they could appear to cater to the middle class but still put on a serious/good show. This is similar to when theaters put on a serious show and then an interlude of bawd or gore to appease the lower class. However The Knight of the Burning Pestle lets the two sections of story, the original and the one invented by the citizenry to meet and interact with each other, presumably changing the original story. I think that this is a very big tell-tale that it is a creation to truly explore this middle class interest in theater and give them something they want, not just throw them a bone of "interlude".
The citizens siding with Humphrey is interesting because he is of a higher class than Jasper. I think this could be the part of the story that actually makes fun of the citizens or maybe Beaumont just really had something against star-crossed lovers and thought his middle class would be practical enough to see it just wouldn't work out in the end.