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Adam Smith, Sir Herbert Tree and the Wages of Actors 1890-1914

Sanderson, Michael

Business history, 1985-07, Vol.27 (2), p.197-206 [Periódico revisado por pares]

London: Frank Cass & Company Ltd

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  • Título:
    Adam Smith, Sir Herbert Tree and the Wages of Actors 1890-1914
  • Autor: Sanderson, Michael
  • Assuntos: Actor/Actors/Actress/Actresses ; Economic/Economics/Economical ; Nineteenth century ; Social status
  • É parte de: Business history, 1985-07, Vol.27 (2), p.197-206
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  • Descrição: Adam Smith's prediction in The Wealth of Nations (1776) that the number of actors in London, England, theaters would increase & that their relative social position would be enhanced serves as a focus for an analysis of the economics of acting in the Edwardian era. The social disfavor suffered by eighteenth-century actors, which severely limited their numbers, but which enabled the best ones to command high salaries, began to disappear in the mid-nineteenth century when the number of theaters was allowed to increase. The consequent increase in the number of stage actors (from 4,565 in 1881 to 18,247 in 1911) elevated their social position, but Smith's additional prediction that such an increase would result in falling wages was not borne out. The efforts of such entrepreneurs as Sir Herbert Tree in securing attractive wages for the quality casts serving in his West End productions explains how such an apparent "oversupply" of actors failed to depress overall income levels. 4 Tables. B. Heitman
  • Editor: London: Frank Cass & Company Ltd
  • Idioma: Inglês
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