Add to ORKGThis work defines and analyzes the concepts of fake news and news anxiety in early modern England, arguing that fears about the dishonesty, abundance, and intrusiveness of cheap newsprint became key cultural concerns—concerns that find frequent expression in the literature of the time. Professional theater and commercial news came of age together in England, and the dramatic stage, itself a kind of news venue, proved a trenchant critic of printed news. Other academic works have examined connections between commercial news and professional theater, but mine is the first to examine the theater’s anxious preoccupation with fake news. This study focuses on the role of news, fake news, and news-related anxieties in the plays of Shakespeare
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With the beginning of the first English civil war, the pamphlet play emerged as a new genre which ta...
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In response to the representational copia surrounding poisoning, critics have tended to focus on how...
I argue that the early modern theatre made a significant contribution to the development of a new, m...
Abstract Fake news, puff, hoax, and canard. The perspective of a media historian The aim of this a...
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On the basis of the information panic about the Slave War of 1848 in Denmark and the professional et...
This thesis assesses the role of illicit printing in early modern England, from the publication of t...
The term ‘Shakespearean forgery’ generally conjures up nineteenth-century figures such as J.P. Colli...
In 1653, the playwright, poet and antiquarian Arthur Wilson’s The History of Great Britain, being th...
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