Idly browsing Twitter whilst eating my Shreddies (edible cardboard, but good for me), I suddenly put down my spoon at the sight of something far more interesting. Here’s mention of a new book about intellectual property and plays in eighteenth-century Britain!
Owning Performance | Performing Ownership:
Literary Property and the Eighteenth-Century British Stage, by Jane Wessel
‘How playwrights, actors, and theater managers vied for control over the performance of popular plays after the passage of England’s first copyright law.’
The book is published by the University of Michigan Press later this year. I shall clearly have to add this to the Claimed From Stationers’ Hall network bibliography!
Karen McAulay, Musicologist 