 Jonson combined these new discoveries, and this perception of a new frontier of knowledge, with the innovative contemporary climate in the dissemination of news.The later Jacobean era was the time when the first English-language newspapers and news agencies were coming into being.Jonson expressed his skeptical attitude toward these developments in several works written in this period, most notably in "The Staple of News" (1625), but also here in his 1620 masque.