Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper is the catalog for the 2008 exhibition at The Folger. Text by Jason Peacey and Chris R. Kyle. 182 pages, high quality reproductions. Paper with stiff cover. 10 3/4" x 8 1/4". New in publishers shrink wrap.

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Title

Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper

Publisher

The Folger Shakespeare Library

Publication Date

2008

Language

English

ISBN 10

0295988738

ISBN 13

9780295988733

Binding

Paperback

Condition

New

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The first newspaper arrived in England in 1620 and sparked a huge demand for up-to-the minute reports on domestic and world events. Men and women in Renaissance England were addicted to news, whether from the battlefields of Europe, or the scandal-filled salons of its courtiers. Newspapers commented on politics, crime, omens, bad weather, natural disasters, and strange apparitions.

Breaking News traces the development of the newspaper in England, from its origins in manuscript letters and imported corantos in Shakespeare's England, to the introduction of daily newspapers, regional journals, and specialist magazines around 1700, as well as the first stirrings of American journalism. The examples of early journalism illustrated here reveal the indelible mark the early English newspaper has left on modern news culture.

About the Author

Chris R. Kyle is associate professor of history at Syracuse University. Jason Peacey is lecturer in history at University College London.

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