Deborah C. Payne

The Business of English Restoration Theatre, 1660-1700

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009398213
• ISBN-10: 1009398210
• Artikelnr.: 70371336

Autorenporträt

Deborah C. Payne is Associate Professor in the Department of Literature at American University, Washington DC. Her previous publications include The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre (2000); Four Libertine Plays from the Restoration (2005); Revisiting Shakespeare's Lost Play: Cardenio/Double Falsehood in the Eighteenth Century (2016); and, with Drew Lichtenburg, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, 1986 - 2021 (2024). She also consults for theatre companies in Washington, DC.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The theatre as gift: networks, patronage, and personality
2. The economics of scarcity and prestige: performance practices and repertory
3. The culture of improvement and 'great expences': neighborhoods, playhouses, and stagecraft
4. Not keeping up: rival commodities, pastimes, and entertainments
5. Fame and famine: writing for the stage
6. Stardom and sedulousness: acting for the stage.