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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]
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 | Folger: Early Modern English Drama. Author (s): Ben Jonson. Written for: Adult Company. Genre: Comedies. First performance: 1626. First printed: 1631. Versions. SHC encoding: XML. EEBO-TCP encoding: XML. Encoding path: Harvard > A04633 > 161-A04633_03 > Staple. Microfilm reel: STC / 1819:12. Bibliography. STC/Wing: STC 14753.5.
The staple of news by Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637; Kifer, Devra Rowland, 1927-Publication date 1976 Publisher London : E. Arnold Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English. Includes bibliographical references Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2014-03-25 14:52:40.304509 Bookplateleaf
A man of vast reading and a seemingly insatiable appetite for controversy, Jonson had an unparalleled breadth of influence on Jacobean and Caroline playwrights and poets. A house in Dulwich College is named after him. See more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Jonson.
The Staple of News responds to recent developments in news culture. The early 1620s had seen a marked increase in public appetite for and access to "news," the first corantos or news-sheets printed in London appearing in 1621 and the first newsbooks - publications in quarto as opposed to the single-sheet corantos - following in 1622.7 This shift,
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