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The Theatrical Manager in Britain and America: Player of a Perilous Game
By (Author) Joseph W. Donohue
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th May 2015
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
792.068
Paperback
242
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
340g
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 prod