The Business of English Restoration Theatre, 1660-1700 - Hardcover

by Deborah C. Payne (Author)

"Deborah C. Payne's groundbreaking study explores how the duopoly established in 1660 - adopted to create an upmarket, elite theatre - unexpectedly reshaped company practices, stagecraft, and the professions of actors and dramatists. Network and behavioural economic theory further illuminate the lure of an economic model inimical to self-interest"--