Art imitates business : commercial and political influences in Elizabethan theatre

Ch. 1. Art Imitates Business: Profit and Business Practices in Elizabethan Theatre

Ch. 2. Have We Allowed His 'Tales' to Wag the Man? What Was Shakespeare's Primary Occupation?

Ch. 3. Why Boys for (wo)Men's Roles? or, Pardon the Delay, 'the Queen was shaving'

Ch. 4. Shakespeare's Dramatic Joke: The Taming of the Shrew

Ch. 5. The "Mole" in Shakespeare's Company: "Industrial Espionage" in Elizabethan Theatre

Ch. 6. The Very Human Shylock: Court Intrigue, Propaganda, Patron Payback, and The Merchant of Venice

Ch. 7. Ben Jonson's The Isle of Dogs: Politics and Playwriting in Elizabethan England

Ch. 8. Extortion in the Name of Art: The Impressment of Thomas Clifton into Blackfriars Boys

Ch. 9. Eddies of the Essex Episode: Political Ripples in the Theatre and Book Trades