The theater between craft and commodity -- Crafty performance in city comedy: Jonson's Every man in his humour and Chapman, Jonson, and Marston's Eastward ho! -- Casting apprentices in Beaumont's The knight of the burning pestle -- Thinking with the feet in Dekker's The shoemaker's holiday and Rowley's A shoemaker, a gentleman -- Labor and theatrical value on the shakespearean stage: a Midsummer night's dream and The tempest -- Afterword: performing laboring subjectivity.