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The Staple of News is an early Caroline era play, a satire by Ben Jonson. The play was first performed in late 1625 by the King's Men at the Blackfriars Theatre , and first published in 1631. [1]
Published as part of The Works of Benjamin Jonson, the second volume, containing: Bartholomew Fair; The Staple of News; The Devil Is an Ass.
of the plot: The Staple of News, an organization devised to profit on people willing to pay for fabrication and falsification of reality; and the battle for Pecunia, the embodiment of sexuality and wealth.
The Staple of News. In time make good those Outer-works, your Pockets, And take a Garrison in of some two hundred, To beat these Pioneers off, that carry a Mine. Would blow you up, at last. Secure your Casamates, Here Master Picklock, Sir, your Man o' Law, And learn'd Atturny, has sent you a Bag of Munition.
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 broad scope and to suggest something of its theatrical pote...
17 de may. de 2009 · The staple of news : Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637; Kifer, Devra Rowland, 1927- ed. Publication date. 1975. Topics. Inheritance and succession, Fathers and sons, Gossip. Publisher. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press. Collection. americana.
Staple of News, The. A comedy by Ben *Jonson, performed 1626, printed 1631. Pennyboy Junior learns from a beggar, whom he takes on as a servant, that his father has died. He begins to squander his inheritance, buying gaudy clothes, pursuing the rich Lady Pecunia, his miserly uncle's ward, and purchasing a clerkship for his barber at the Staple ...
