One point that I've found very interesting in reading "The Knight of the Burning Pestle" is that the citizen is never given a name. This makes it appear to the commoners that he actually stands for all of them, and he does it quite well I would say. At the beginning of the play, the citizen asks the prologue to "present something notably in honour of the commons of the city" (Induction, 57). He also requests that there be a grocer, like the citizen, and that he do "rare things" (Induction, 59). Of course the citizen is quite comical at times, but he also serves to represent the commons, and I feel as though they would have been quite pleased with this representation.