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The Media Players - Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, and the Idea of News (Paperback)
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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.
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