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.