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Author Marino, James J., author.

Title Owning William Shakespeare : the King's Men and their intellectual property / James J. Marino
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]
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Description 1 online resource (204 pages) : illustrations
Series Material texts.
Contents Introduction -- Chapter 1. Secondhand Repertory: The Fall and Rise of Master W. Shakespeare -- Chapter 2. Sixty Years of Shrews -- Chapter 3. Hamlet, Part by Part -- Chapter 4. William Shakespeare's Sir John Oldcastle and the Globe's William Shakespeare -- Chapter 5. Restorations and Glorious Revolutions -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary "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. In Owning William Shakespeare 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 Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, and other works, he demonstrates how Shakespeare's acting company asserted ownership of its plays through intense rewriting combined with progressively insistent attribution to Shakespeare. The familiar versions of these plays were created through ongoing revision in the theater, a process that did not necessarily begin with Shakespeare's original manuscript or end when he died. An ascription by the company of any play to "Shakespeare" did not imply that it was following a fixed, authorial text; rather, Marino writes, it indicates an attempt to maintain exclusive control over a set of open-ended, theatrically revised scripts. Combining theater history, textual studies, and literary theory, Owning William Shakespeare rethinks both the way Shakespeare's plays were created and the way they came to be known as his. It overturns a century of scholarship aimed at re-creating the playwright's lost manuscripts, focusing instead on the way the plays continued to live and grow onstage." -- Provided by publisher
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-193) and index
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Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Authorship.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism, Textual.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- To 1625.
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Authorship
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism, Textual
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- To 1625
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Subject Chamberlain's Men (Theater company)
King's Men (Theater company)
SUBJECT King's Men (Theater company) fast
Chamberlain's Men (Theater company) fast
Subject Theatrical companies -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century
Theatrical companies -- England -- London -- History -- 16th century
Repertory theater -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century
Repertory theater -- England -- London -- History -- 16th century
Transmission of texts -- England -- History -- 17th century
Transmission of texts -- England -- History -- 16th century
Intellectual property -- England -- History -- 17th century
Intellectual property -- England -- History -- 16th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
Authorship
Intellectual property
Repertory theater
Theatrical companies
Transmission of texts
England
England -- London
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010028881
ISBN 9780812205770
0812205774
0812222547
9780812222548
1283897636
9781283897631