{"product_id":"owning-william-shakespeare-9780812222548","title":"Owning William Shakespeare","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCopyright 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOwning William Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Who, in the early modern period, laid claim to owning Shakespeare's plays? How did the property regimes of print and performance determine the nature of such claims? In tackling these questions, James J. Marino scores some palpable hits.\" * \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Expertly blending literary criticism, performance theory, and historical analysis of intellectual property, Marino masterfully argues for the important role the Chamberlain's Men\/King's Men played in vigorously maintaining their ownership in and the authenticity of Shakespeare's plays.\" * \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"A thematically dense, insightful book that will engage readers interested in the origins and evolutions of intellectual property law, of the business of early modern drama, and of textual transmissions and adaptations.\" * \u003ci\u003eEarly English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"In this fascinating study, which brings together literary and textual studies, book and theatre history, the story of how Shakespeare's plays came to be created and known as his is told as a story of the King's Men and their property. Focusing on how intellectual property was created and maintained, \u003ci\u003eOwning William Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e makes important contributions to theatre and book history, puts paid to scholarship premised on the recovery of Shakespeare's authorial script, and argues for a radically revised understanding of early modern dramatic texts.\" * \u003ci\u003eReview of English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOwning William Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of early modern drama as intellectual property. It does so with energy, urgency, passion, and originality: it points out details about book history and publication that have never been articulated before, redefining the field in important ways.\" * Tiffany Stern, University College, Oxford *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Secondhand Repertory: The Fall and Rise of Master W. Shakespeare\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Sixty Years of Shrews\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Hamlet, Part by Part\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. William Shakespeare's Sir John Oldcastle and the Globe's William Shakespeare\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Restorations and Glorious Revolutions\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405700800855,"sku":"9780812222548","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812222548.jpg?v=1730493328","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/owning-william-shakespeare-9780812222548","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}