ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the range of corporate engagement with the incipient public sphere in early modern England suggested by these examples. It looks at moments of crisis, including Amboyna, to detail how corporations took the decision to enter print, and what forms of public speaking this encompassed. It examines the range of pro- and anti-corporate writing circulating in the seventeenth century. Finally, it demonstrates the ways in which the self-interest of corporate printing had broader effects on the political imagination in early modern England, taking as a case study the debate over the establishment of forts overseas.
