Thomas Johnson's and Mary Wellington's Single-Text Editions of Hamlet and the Copyright Act of 1710.
The 1710 Copyright Act had well-attested effects on the expensive collected editions of Shakespeare published by the Tonson publishing house, leading the publishers to periodically publish ostensibly new editions in a bid to extend their rights for longer than the twenty-one years granted by the act...
| Published in: | Modern Philology Vol. 120; no. 2; pp. 212 - 237 |
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Nov2022
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