Stephen Wittek is a post-doctoral fellow at McGill University, where he received his PhD in Literature.

Stephen Wittek's The Media Players: Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, and the Idea of News argues that theater played a central role in the development of news culture and a proto-public sphere in seventeenth century England. This supplements recent work in history on the early seventeenth-century development of English news culture by Curtis Perry forcefully arguing for the importance of theater, even though it is also acknowledged that news is a 'massive public conversation' in which all manner of producers and consumers participate.

Stephen Wittek is a post-doctoral fellow at McGill University, where he received his PhD in Literature.

Stephen Wittek's The Media Players: Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, and the Idea of News argues that theater played a central role in the development of news culture and a proto-public sphere in seventeenth century England. This supplements recent work in history on the early seventeenth-century development of English news culture by Curtis Perry forcefully arguing for the importance of theater, even though it is also acknowledged that news is a 'massive public conversation' in which all manner of producers and consumers participate.

Stephen Wittek is a post-doctoral fellow at McGill University, where he received his PhD in Literature.

Stephen Wittek's The Media Players: Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, and the Idea of News argues that theater played a central role in the development of news culture and a proto-public sphere in seventeenth century England. This supplements recent work in history on the early seventeenth-century development of English news culture by Curtis Perry forcefully arguing for the importance of theater, even though it is also acknowledged that news is a 'massive public conversation' in which all manner of producers and consumers participate.