Tracy C. Davis

The Economics of the British Stage 1800-1914

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First comprehensive study of economic theory in relation to the development of nineteenth-century British theatre.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 526
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 996g
• ISBN-13: 9780521571159
• ISBN-10: 0521571154
• Artikelnr.: 21660611

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Note to readers
Introduction
Part I. Competition: Theatre and Laissez-Faire: 1. Monopoly and free trade: fair and unfair competition
2. Property and the stakes of private interest
3. Industrial regulation and safety
4. Marginal economics, national interest and the half-naked woman
Part II. Ownership and Entrepreneurialism: 5. Opportunity, finance and failure
6. Profit
7. Business structures
8. Gender, 'gentlemanly capitalism' and the wo-manager
Part III. Industrialization, Commodity Capitalism and Theatre Production Systems: 9. Labour and labourers
10. Theatre as cultural capital
Appendix: 'To the public. Charles Kemble's mercies or the '999' increasing'
Notes
Bibliography
Index.