Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Elizabethan Theatre
This talk explores the ways that entrepreneurs and creatives worked together to produce a dynamic media industry in the period up to 1642
24 November 12:00 to 13:30
Saïd Business School - Park End Street Park End Street Oxford OX1 1HP
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Elizabethan Theatre by Said Business School
Part of Engaging with the Humanities
Theatre emerges as an exciting new media business in London at the end of the sixteenth century.
This talk explores the ways that entrepreneurs and creatives worked together to produce a dynamic media industry in the period up to 1642. We’ve all heard of Shakespeare, but what was the broader structure in which his plays were conceived and performed? How might more modern understandings of business disruption, competition and innovation help us reframe the story of the earliest theatres in England – and vice versa?
Professor Emma Smith,
Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Tutorial Fellow English, and Fellow Librarian and Archivist.
