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Chelsea Phillips

is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Villanova University in Philadelphia. Her first book, Carrying All Before Her: Celebrity Pregnancy, Repertory, and the London Stage 1689-1800 was published by University of Delaware Press in 2022. In 2018-19, she was the recipient of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies-Folger Institute Short-Term Fellowship.
Accounting for Relationships: the Drury Lane Financial Records
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Accounting for Relationships: the Drury Lane Financial Records

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A guest post by Chelsea Phillips With the cherry trees blooming (almost), the sun shining (sometimes), and tax season looming, there is no more delightful time to consider the vagaries of 18th-century theatrical accounting practice. The Folger Shakespeare Library holds…