FREE delivery to all EXCLUSIVE BOOKS stores nationwide. FREE delivery to your door on all orders over R450. Excludes all international deliveries.

Media Players

Stephen Wittek
    Product form
      FORMAT: Paperback / softback
      YOU COULD EARN 0 FUTURE RETAIL DISCOUNTS.

      This product is either out of print or out of stock. Add it to your wishlist and we will automatically let you know if it comes back into stock. Add to Wishlist

      BUY NOW PAY LATER
      From R 0.00 per month!
      3x monthly payments of R 0.00 with
      4x fortnightly payments of R 0.00 with

      This product is either out of print or out of stock. Add it to your wishlist and we will automatically let you know if it comes back into stock. Add to Wishlist

      The Media Players: Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, and the Idea of News builds a case for the central, formative function of Shakespeare’s theater in the news culture of early modern England. In an analysis that combines historical research with recent developments in public sphere theory, Dr. Stephen Wittek argues that the unique discursive space created by commercial theater helped to foster the conceptual framework that made news possible.Dr. Wittek’s analysis focuses on the years between 1590 and 1630, an era of extraordinary advances in English news culture that begins with the first instance of serialized news in England and ends with the emergence of news as a regular, permanent fixture of the marketplace. Notably, this period of expansion in news culture coincided with a correspondingly extraordinary era of theatrical production and innovation, an era that marks the beginning of commercial theater in London, and has left us with the plays of William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Middleton.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Stephen Wittek EAN: 9780472052813 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 243 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Michigan Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2015-11-30 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Literature: history and criticism, News media and journalism, History and Archaeology

      Customer Reviews

      Be the first to write a review
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      Stephen Wittek is a post-doctoral fellow at McGill University, USA, where he received his PhD in Literature.
      The Media Players: Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, and the Idea of News builds a case for the central, formative function of Shakespeare’s theater in the news culture of early modern England. In an analysis that combines historical research with recent developments in public sphere theory, Dr. Stephen Wittek argues that the unique discursive space created by commercial theater helped to foster the conceptual framework that made news possible.Dr. Wittek’s analysis focuses on the years between 1590 and 1630, an era of extraordinary advances in English news culture that begins with the first instance of serialized news in England and ends with the emergence of news as a regular, permanent fixture of the marketplace. Notably, this period of expansion in news culture coincided with a correspondingly extraordinary era of theatrical production and innovation, an era that marks the beginning of commercial theater in London, and has left us with the plays of William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Middleton.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Stephen Wittek EAN: 9780472052813 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 243 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Michigan Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2015-11-30 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Literature: history and criticism, News media and journalism, History and Archaeology

      Customer Reviews

      Be the first to write a review
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      Stephen Wittek is a post-doctoral fellow at McGill University, USA, where he received his PhD in Literature.

      Recently viewed products

      Login

      Forgot your password?

      Don't have an account yet?
      Create account