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The main plot, about the Pennyboy family and Lady Pecunia, is a satire on the emerging ethic of capitalism; and the play features a complex threefold satire on abuses of language, in the News Staple, the society of jeerers, and the project for a Canting College.
The notion of the staple permits Jonson to satirize the new news industry itself as well as the behavior of those who buy and sell the news. His technique is to make the Staple Office a holiday joke in which the new business of newsmongering is blown up into a large-scale monopolistic enterprise like the venerable Wool Staple. News is issued
The four London ladies of the Intermeans are intended by Jonson to act as a surrogate audience whose behaviors can be scrutinized, and criticized, by the actual Blackfriars audience of The Staple of News. The spectacle they provide is instructive on several levels.
The Bible and humor is a topic of Biblical criticism concerned with the question of whether parts of the Bible were intended to convey humor in any style. Historically, this topic has not received much attention, but modern scholars generally agree that humor can be found in biblical texts.
Staple of News, The. A comedy by Ben *Jonson, performed 1626, printed 1631. Pennyboy Junior learns from a beggar, whom he takes on as a servant, that his father has died. He begins to squander his inheritance, buying gaudy clothes, pursuing the rich Lady Pecunia, his miserly uncle's ward, and purchasing a clerkship for his barber at the Staple ...
The Tale's satire is most consistent in attacking misreading of all sorts. Both in the narrative sections and the digressions, the single human flaw that underlies all the follies Swift attacks is over-figurative and over-literal reading, both of the Bible and of poetry and political prose.
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Argues that Jonson's 1626 comedy The Staple of News contains a parody, and a detailed critique of, Thomas Middleton's 1624 political satire A Game At Chess. Examines the relevance of the episode to …
