Abstract
Thomas Dekker's contributions to news pamphleteering include a series of plague books dealing with the outbreaks of epidemic that ravaged London between 1603 and 1627. In The Wonderfull yeare , his first prose work, Dekker provides a semi-documentary account of the effects of the 1603 pestilence on Londoners. In an effort to forestall any objections to his plague book's mingling of eyewitness reporting and storytelling, Dekker explains the origins of news in report or rumour, which, following classical precedents, he equates with fiction-making. Asserting the artificiality of the distinction between fact and fiction, Dekker implicates his plague book in the variable nature of discourse that underwrites early modern print culture. Dekker's approach to plague writing, the book trade, and the dissemination of news warrants more critical attention. Keywords: book trade; modern print culture; news pamphlets; plague writing; The Wonderfull yeare ; Thomas Dekker
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