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The Staple Of News

By Ben Jonson
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By Ben Jonson
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A razor-sharp city comedy. It skewers the news machine. The Staple of News is a seventeenth-century play by Ben Jonson that sits squarely within English renaissance drama and the wider corpus of Ben Jonson's works. As a satirical stage comedy it takes the newly commercialised world of information as its subject, engaging early modern journalism and media satire themes with a stern theatrical appetite. Jonson's humour combines formal discipline with savage observation; the play registers fas...

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