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<p>Copyright is by no means the only device for asserting ownership of a work. Some writers, including playwrights in the early modern period, did not even view print copyright as the most important of their authorial rights. A rich vein of recent scholarship has examined the interaction between royal monopolies, which have been identified with later notions of intrinsic authorial ownership, and the internal copy registration practices of the English book trades. Yet this dialogue was but one part of a still more complicated conversation in early modern England, James J. Marino argues; other customs and other sets of professional demands were at least as important, most strikingly in the exercise of the performance rights of plays.</p> <p>In <i>Owning William Shakespeare</i> James Marino explores the actors' system of intellectual property as something fundamentally different from the property regimes exercised by the London printers or the royal monopolists. Focusing on <i>Hamlet</i>, <i>The Taming of the Shrew</i>, <i>King Lear</i>, and other works, he demonstrates how Shakespeare's acting company asserted ownership of its plays through intense rewriting combined with progressive
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- Author
- James J. Marino
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781283897631
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Humanities
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