Henslowe's Diary (recently reissued by Cambridge) would be a good place to start. I would also recommend Ann Rosalind Jones and Peter Stallybrass's _Clothing and the Materials of Memory_ as a guide into the Henslowe material as a key to the questions your student is asking. best, Tyler Smith At 04:03 PM 1/9/2004 -0600, you wrote: >I'm forwarding this email from a colleague, C. David Frankel. I can >forward any replies to him. >Thanks, >Paulette Marty > >Hi. I have a student (highly motivated undergraduate) who is interested >in finding out about the theatre as a commercial enterprise during the >Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. He's especially interested in marketing >questions: how were productions and theatres advertised, what kind of >competitive forces affected prices, who made money and how, and so on. > >He's looked for books and articles but hasn't found much (which may be >because neither he nor I are using correct keywords in this instance). > >Does anyone know of any good sources of information for this research >question? > >Thanks. > >cdf > >C. David Frankel >Associate Director of Theatre >School of Theatre and Dance >University of South Florida >4202 E. Fowler Ave., TAR230 >Tampa, Fl. 33620 > >email: [log in to unmask] >vmail: 813.974.1751