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The Staple Office, like that other social institution, Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, is as much a satire on those who patronize it as on its proprietors. Jonson is very hard on the gulls who, in their insatiable hunger for news, enable the gullers to exploit them. Despite the promise of the play's title, the Staple Office does not dominate the play.
Jonson may have had a political motive for his satire: the new business in news concentrated on war news from Europe, which fed the popular urge for England's involvement on the Protestant side of the conflict.
of the plot: The Staple of News, an organization devised to profit on people willing to pay for fabrication and falsification of reality; and the battle for Pecunia, the embodiment of sexuality and wealth.
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.
Ben Jonson’s The Staple of News (1626) is a censorious reflection on the burgeon-ing news culture of the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. By paying close attention to the play and its contexts, this essay aims to correct the error of too closely linking the Early Modern interest in news with the development of print culture.
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 …
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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 ...
