| Description |
1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
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Princeton Legacy Library |
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Princeton legacy library.
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| Contents |
Foreword ; Acknowledgments ; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations ; Introduction; Philip Henslowe; One of God Almighty's Unaccountables Tate Wilkinson of York; ""King Stephen"" of the Park and Drury Lane; The Theatrical Management of Edwin Booth; Wyndham of Wyndham's; Contributors |
| Summary |
From Philip Henslowe to David Merrick, the producer or theatre manager has generally been seen as a combination of Shylock and Simon Legree, usurer and slavedriver, wholly concerned with profit and loss, indifferent to art and artists. Yet no single person has greater responsibility in what George Henry Lewes called the ""perilous game"" of play production. The essays in this volume examine five English and American theatrical managers, from the Elizabethan period to the twentieth century: Philip Henslowe, Tate Wilkinson, Stephen Price, Edwin Booth, and Charles Wyndham. The contributors, who |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Theater management -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industrial Management.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management Science.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior.
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Theater management
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Henslowe, Philip, author
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Donohue, Joseph W., Jr. (Joseph Walter), 1935- editor.
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Beckerman, Bernard, contributor.
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| ISBN |
9781400868100 |
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1400868106 |
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