Speculative Enterprise Public Theaters and Financial Markets in London, 16881763

Speculative Enterprise Public Theaters and Financial Markets in London, 16881763
Identifies a discursive ""theatre-finance nexus"" at work in plays by Colley Cibber, Richard Steele, and Susanna Centlivre as well as in the vibrant eighteenth-century media landscape. As Burkert demonstrates, the stock market and the entertainment industry were recognised as interconnected institutions that gave rise to new modes of resistance.
Nº de Páginas: 272
Encadernação: Capa Dura / Hardback
Tema: European history