Abstract
William Cecil’s Copie of a Letter (STC 15412 – 15414.6), consisting of a Letter, its postscript, its printer’s epistle and an additional pamphlet, Certaine Advertisements Ovt of Ireland, was produced in stages in the fall of 1588, an accumulative production attested to by both bibliographical evidence and governmental correspondence. The texts describe England’s military preparations, political climate, and the events of the summer in the form of an epistolary news letter addressed to Don Bernardino de Mendoza, the Spanish Ambassador to France. This attempt to spread the news of Spanish defeat, to delegitimize Catholic news sources, and to dissuade Catholic support for another convoy grew and developed as the political situation unfolded over the summer and early autumn of 1588. This paper examines the production and transmission of Cecil’s propaganda pamphlet to explore the interpretive frameworks that textual producers, both authors and publishers, used to package early modern news.
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