The Man in the Moon (1649-1650) Fragments poétiques dans la presse royaliste anglaise des années révolutionnaires

The English Revolutionary period of the years 1640-1650 encouraged the flourishing of the weekly press. This contribution focuses on one of the rare weekly papers to be published after the execution of King Charles: The Man in the Moon. It seeks to define a typology of the poetic fragments integrated into the newspaper and to appreciate their links with the immediate textual environment, and the entirety formed by the different issues.