{"product_id":"owning-william-shakespeare-james-j-marino-9780812222548","title":"Owning William Shakespeare: The King's Men and Their Intellectual Property","description":"\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\u003e\u003c\/p\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, \u003ci\u003eThe Taming of the Shrew\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCombining theater history, textual studies, and literary theory, \u003ci\u003eOwning William Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James J. Marino\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0812222547\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812222548\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/06\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.10d","brand":"James J. Marino","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926356295935,"sku":"9780812222548","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_4caa88dd-ad69-4ac7-9b04-fb816efc2569.jpg?v=1681082620","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/owning-william-shakespeare-james-j-marino-9780812222548","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}