This book is a study of the Chamberlain's/King's Men as a business. It investigates the economic workings of the company: the conditions under which they operated, their expenses and income, and the ways in which they adopted to fit changing circumstances. Each chapter focuses on a different moment in the company's history, and consists of 'economic readings, ' exploring texts by Shakespeare and other authors through an economic lens, as the property of the company and through the circumstances in which they were written