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Author Wittek, Stephen

Title The media players : Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, and the idea of news / Stephen Wittek
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2015

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Contents Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; 1. Early Modern Drama and the Idea of News; Theater and News Culture: A Brief History ; The Idea of News ; The Proto-Public Sphere ; Public Making and Printed News ; 2. The Winter's Tale, News, Truth, and Belief; Shakespeare and News; Autolycus, Broadsheets, and Mercury; The Meaning of a Balladeer on a London Stage in 1610; Ballads, Pamphlets, Monstrous Births, and Singing Fish; Shakespeare and the Problem of Belief; ""Times News" and New Forms of Knowledge ; 3. A Game at Chess and the Making of a Theatrical Public; Middleton and News
News from Spain, to Court, to Print, to StageHispanophobia and Hispanophilia; Theater as News Event; 4. The Staple of News and the Invention of Media Criticism; Jonson and News; The Apostrophized Public; Jonson and the Problem of Interpretation; A News Industry from the Early Modern Near Future; News and Mock News; Epilogue: News Is What They Say It Is; Appendix: Names Frequently Used inButter Newsbooks, 1623-1626; Notes ; Bibliography; Critical Editions; Contemporary Documents; Contemporary Publications; Secondary Sources; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Theater and society -- England -- History -- 17th century
English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism
Theater and society -- England -- History -- 16th century
Mass media and literature -- Great Britain -- History
Journalism -- England -- History -- 16th century
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
English drama
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan
Journalism
Mass media and literature
Theater and society
English.
Languages & Literatures.
English Literature.
England
Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780472121342
0472121340