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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext "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"-- Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
