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- Title
SHAKESPEARE AND ACCOUNTING.
- Authors
Pritchard, Robert T.
- Abstract
One who speaks with authority has said that no one should be allowed to write about writer William Shakespeare without a license. The author says he would be tempted to go further than that and omit the last three words. But perhaps a professional accountant has the right to inquire whether Shakespeare wrote about accounting. The word audit is used several times in the plays and sonnets. There is an interesting use of the word also by Anthony Browne, a contemporary writer of Shakespeare. He succeeded to his estates at an early age and when he was twenty-one wrote a book titled "Booke of Orders and Rules" for the guidance of his many servants and retainers which he ordered read aloud to them once each year about the audit time. The state of accounting records in the sixteenth century can safely be said to have been crude, for lack of a stronger term. That Shakespeare came into contact with them can hardly be doubted. His long career in London found him able to retire to Stratford at a comparatively early age with a fortune that at the time was considered large. He had been a member of a company of actors and was the leading and probably the most prosperous group of the period.
- Subjects
ACCOUNTING; BUSINESS; AUTHORS; SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; ACCOUNTANTS; ENGLISH literature; AUDITING
- Publication
Accounting Review, 1946, Vol 21, Issue 1, p67
- ISSN
0001-4826
- Publication type
Article