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The media players : Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, and the idea of news / Stephen Wittek.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wittek, Stephen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- Journalism--England--History--16th century.
- Journalism.
- Mass media and literature--Great Britain--History.
- Mass media and literature.
- Theater and society--England--History--16th century.
- Theater and society.
- English drama--17th century--History and criticism.
- Theater and society--England--History--17th century.
- History.
- England.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2015]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- The Media Players: Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, and the Idea of News builds a case for the central, formative function of Shakespeare's theater in the news culture of early modern England. In an analysis that combines historical research with recent developments in public sphere theory, Dr. Stephen Wittek argues that the unique discursive space created by commercial theater helped to foster the conceptual framework that made news possible. Dr. Wittek's analysis focuses on the years between 1590 and 1630, an era of extraordinary advances in English news culture that begins with the first instance of serialized news in England and ends with the emergence of news as a regular, permanent fixture of the marketplace. Notably, this period of expansion in news culture coincided with a correspondingly extraordinary era of theatrical production and innovation, an era that marks the beginning of commercial theater in London, and has left us with the plays of William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Middleton. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Early Modern Drama and the Idea of News 1
- Theater and News Culture: A Brief History 2
- The Idea of Nexus 8
- The Proto-Public Sphere 12
- Public Making and Printed News 17
- 2 The Winter's Tale, News, Truth, and Belief 27
- Shakespeare and News 28
- Autolycus, Broadsheets, and Mercury 34
- The Meaning of a Balladeer on a London Stage in 1610 38
- Ballads, Pamphlets, Monstrous Births, and Singing Fish 45
- Shakespeare and the Problem of Belief 50
- "Times News " and New Forms of Knowledge 54
- 3 A Game at Chess and the Making of a Theatrical Public Middleton and News 62
- News from Spain, to Court, to Print, to Stage 64
- Hispanophobia, and Hispanophilia 74
- Theater as News Event 78
- 4 The Staple of News and the Invention of Media Criticism 87
- Jonson and News 88
- The Apostrophized Public 95
- Jonson and the Problem of Interpretation 100
- A News Industry from the Early Modern near Future 105
- News and Mock News 109.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-149) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472072811
- 9780472052813
- 9780472121342
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.8178177
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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