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CHAPTER III. AUTHORSHIP AND OWNERSHIP OF PLAYS AS
AFFECTING PUBLICATION 		202
1. Dramatic authorship 202
2. Attitude of the playwright toward publication 204
3. Ownership of plays 217
1) Basis of stage-right before statutes 217
2) Sale of plays in relation to stage-right 220
3) Actors as owners of plays 224
4) Means of conserving stage-right 229
5) Copyright and stage-right 233
4. Attitudes of theatrical companies toward publication 236
5. Statistics on play publication 249
CHAPTER IV. CONDITIONS AFFECTING THE TIME OF PUBLICA-
TION OF PLAYS 		262
1. Stage life of a play: revivals and revisions 263
2. Restraints from acting 265
3. Prohibitions due to the plague 269
4. Status of theatrical companies 276
5. Demand for printed plays 284
CHAPTER V. SOURCES OF PLAY TEXTSPRINTED 288
1. Legitimate and illegitimate sources 288
2. Theories as to sources of play copy: Lost, stolen, and
borrowed manuscripts; scriveners' copies; actors'
roles; authors' manuscripts, private transcripts 		289
3. Characteristics of playhouse manuscripts 296
4. Possible ways of pirating playhouse versions 300
1) The "traitor-actor" theory 300
2) Pirating by memory 310
3) Pirating by stenography 315
CHAPTER VI. PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CONDITIONS AS AFFECT-
ING THE STATE OF THE TEXT 		317
1. Commercializing of printing 317
2. Competition between printer and bookseller 318
3. Lack of employment for printers 319
4. Use of faulty manuscripts 321
5. Crudity of printing equipment 323
6. Work of the compositor 325
7. Kinds and causes of errata 334
8. Work of the corrector 344
9. Proof-reading by the author 348
10. General standards of typographical accuracy 356
11. Editing by compositor, corrector, and publisher 369
12. Causes and significance of variant readings 372
13. Evidences of surreptitious or piratical printing 382
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 385
BIBLIOGRAPHY 385

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Publication Information: Book Title: Dramatic Publication in England, 1580-1640: A Study of Conditions Affecting Content and Form of Drama. Contributors: Evelyn May Albright - author. Publisher: Modern Language Association of America. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1927. Page Number: viii.
    
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