The Staple of News

The Staple of News
Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1988
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780719059063

This edition offers a modernized text based on a fresh collation of the 1631-1640 folio, together with an account of the play's printing history, a full commentary which sets Jonson's art in its intellectual and social context, and an introduction which seeks to do justice to the play's braod scope and to suggest something of its theatrical potential.

News in Early Modern Europe

News in Early Modern Europe
Author: Simon Davies
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2014-07-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004276866

News in Early Modern Europe presents new research on the nature, production, and dissemination of a variety of forms of news writing from across Europe during the early modern period.

The Media Players

The Media Players
Author: Stephen Wittek
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2015-07-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0472052810

News culture in England grew--not coincidentally--as a spectacular era of theatrical production and innovation reigned