Printers' Ink, Sep 21, 1922 (Vol. 120, No. 12): "Ben Jonson Describes the Ancestor of the Modern Advertising Agent" by Earnest Elmo Calkins
The pattern
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Why it works
Earnest Elmo Calkins finding the origins of modern advertising in seventeenth-century Ben Jonson plays. Exploring literary roots shows that human gullibility and desire remain unchanged across centuries.
Steal this when
When studying classic theatrical satire to understand timeless consumer psychology and vanity.