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An analysis of the role of rent-seeking in the formation of clienteles and the relationship of clientage to changes in the political structure of a society. The principal argument is that elites extract resources from society to underwrite the costs of maintaining power through …

This project, a graduate research thesis, intends to provide information and analysis of Jonathan Larson’s 1996 musical Rent. It covers the life and works of Jonathan Larson, the production history of Rent, Rent’s 1896 operatic predecessor La Bohème, and the environmental contex…