Böcker av Tracy C. (Northwestern University Davis

"Examining political performances' spatial arrangements, casting of roles, authorization of speech, oratorical techniques, styles of movement, behavioral conventions, and audience reactions, this book shows how nineteenth-century activists innovatively connected performative forms to critical content in order to make their activism more effective"--

British theatre became big business in the nineteenth century, and the role of laissez-faire in this cultural industry consistently troubled the government. This full-length study investigates the theatre's growth from an economic perspective, reflecting the debates of theorists from Adam Smith to Alfred Marshall.