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Part of his late comedies, dubbed by Dryden as his "dotages," "The Staple of News" is a satire on the newspaper and news agency business that was quickly developing at the time. The plot draws on at least five plays by Aristophanes, and tells the story of the plutocratic Lady Pecunia, an array of wooers and jeerers, and a group of women who represent "females out of control," a common theme of ...
The Staple of News est ludus scaenicus a Beniamino Jonson anno 1625 doctus, anno 1631 divulgatus. Nexus externi. Textus apud The Holloway Pages; The Staple of News : Index personarum. Beniaminus Jonson. Verba quae insequuntur vicificanda sunt ut rationibus qualitatis et Latinitatis propositis obtemperent. Quaesumus ut ...
He contrasts The Staple of News to Volpone, a play in which allegorical representations are reinforced by specific actions: ‘Here in The Staple of News, although the theme is basically the same [as Volpone], the audience is offered little of such enactment … but instead … is given an abundance of overt allegorical description and analysis.’ 60 Although a pronounced tension certainly ...
staple-news, and not trusted to your printed conundrums of the serpent in Sussex, or the witches bidding devil to dinner at Derby - news that, when a man sends them down to the shires where they are said to be done, were never there found. (ll. 41-7) Jonson would of course erect his own staple for news within a few
2 de dic. de 2020 · Extract. In 1905, two important contributions were made to our knowledge of the sources of Ben Jonson's The Staple of News. Dr. De Winter, in a critical edition of the play, pointed out several important similarities between it and the earlier London Prodigal, which play he urged, further, was “mainly the work of Jonson's hand.”.
As Staple News; no other News be currant. P. Ju. 'Fore me, thou speak'st of, a brave business, Thom. Fas. Nay, if you knew the Brain that hatch'd it, Sir — P. Ju. I know thee well enough: give him a Loaf, Thom — Quiet his Mouth, that Oven will be venting else. Proceed — Tho. He tells you true, Sir, Master Cymbal
Book Information. Format: Paperback; ISBN: 978-0-7190-5906-3; Pages: 288 ; Publisher: Manchester University Press; Price: £14.99 ; Published Date: March 2000
