Bücher von Tracy C. Davis

A biographically based study of George Bernard Shaw and his milieu, this book offers a non-laudatory reading of Shaw's economic practices and theories, augments feminist and postcolonial critiques that preoccupy the study of literary history in the 1990s, and provides a long overdue revisionist reading of Shaw for an undergraduate readership.

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.