LifeLong Learning

LifeLong Learning a collaboration between Colgate University's Upstate Institute and the community to provide adults with ongoing education for the enrichment of their lives in a diversity of fields.

Playhouse Owners and Investors during Shakespeare’s Time

An overview of some of the men who owned theatres during Shakespeare's time, discussing who they were, what their motives were in building the first capitalist playhouses, how they financed their investments, and what the risk culture of entrepreneurship consisted of in the entertainment business of early modern London.

Presenter: Susan Cerasano is the Edgar W. B. Fairchild Professor of Literature at Colgate University. Her research is on theatre entrepreneurship and the biographies of early modern persons associated with first capitalist playhouses.

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