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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.
Much of the criticism of The Staple of News has been concerned with the presence or absence of unity among the disparate elements of satire, morality, and allegory.
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 Staple of News (1626) stimulates interpretive dissonance in his audiences in the service of critiquing modes of economic representation. Both Jonson's play and the mercantile treatises deploy a similar cast of allegorical characters: the miser, the prodigal, and personified money.
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.
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.
Jul 17, 2015 · 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...
