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1 Online-Ressource (x, 198 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511486043
Content:
Playing Companies and Commerce in Shakespeare's Time, first published in 2011, examines the nature of commercial relations among the theatre companies in London during the time of Shakespeare. Roslyn Knutson argues that the playing companies cooperated in the adoption of business practices that would enable the theatrical enterprise to flourish. Suggesting the guild as a model of economic cooperation, Knutson considers the networks of fellowship among players, the marketing strategies of the repertory, and company relationships with playwrights and members of the book trade. The book challenges two entrenched views about theatrical commerce: that companies engaged in cut-throat rivalry to drive one another out of business and that companies based business decisions on the personal and professional quarrels of the players and dramatists with whom they worked. This important contribution to theatre history will be of interest to scholars as well as historians
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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1. Theatre history as personality -- 2. Players and company commerce -- 3. Playwrights, repertories, the book trade, and company commerce -- 4. Histrio-Mastix and company commerce -- 5. Hamlet and company commerce -- 6. Poetaster, Satiromastix, and company commerce -- 7. Conclusion: Hot Anger and company commerce.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521772426
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521031165
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521772426
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511486043
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