English News Plays of the Early 1620s: Thomas Middleton’s A Game at Chess and Ben Jonson’s The Staple of News
English News Plays of the Early 1620s: Thomas Middleton’s A Game at Chess and Ben Jonson’s The Staple of News
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1620 年代早期的英语新闻剧目：托马斯·米德尔顿 (Thomas Middleton) 的《一盘棋》和本·琼森 (Ben Jonson) 的《新闻主食》
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10.1163/9789004276864_013
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2014
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Puck Fletcher
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S. Davies;Puck Fletcher
1624年8月，托马斯·米德尔顿的《下棋》登上了地球仪剧院的舞台，立即成为新闻。到17世纪20年代初，新闻出版物越来越受到英国读者的欢迎。早在印刷、连载的新闻出版物出现之前，英国戏剧就已经参与了新闻的上演。然而，“直到17世纪20年代，舞台剧通常处理时事问题”。《国际象棋游戏》采用了一种寓言式的国际象棋游戏的形式，在游戏中，代表英国宫廷的白宫通过揭露西班牙宫廷的道德自负和腐败，击败了代表西班牙宫廷的黑宫。它与当时新闻业的暧昧关系使米德尔顿的《象棋游戏》与第二部受到审查的新闻剧《本·琼森的新闻主食》非常接近。与米德尔顿的《象棋游戏》相似，琼森的《新闻订书钉》显示了与印刷媒介的高度模糊的关系。关键词：一盘棋;本·琼森;英语新闻出版物;主要新闻;托马斯·米德尔顿
Hitting the stage of the Globe Theatre in August 1624, Thomas Middleton's A Game at Chess instantly became news. By the early 1620s, news publications had become increasingly popular with English readers. English theatre had been involved in staging news long before the advent of printed, serialized news publications. However, "until the 1620s, stage plays customarily dealt with topical matters". A Game at Chess takes the form of an allegorical chess game in which the White House, representing the English court, defeats the Black House, representing the Spanish court, by revealing the latter's moral conceit and corruption. Its ambiguous engagement with the news business of its time places Middleton's A Game at Chess into close proximity to the second news play under scrutiny here, Ben Jonson's Staple of News . Similar to Middleton's A Game at Chess , Jonson's Staple of News displays a highly ambiguous relationship with the medium of print. Keywords: A Game at Chess ; Ben Jonson; English news publications; Staple of News ; Thomas Middleton