The earliest, The Starter, will be protected through 2018 if it was properly renewed. Since there is no way of verifying renewal besides searching the paper records at the Copyright Office, it is generally easiest to assume the copyright was renewed.
All of Shakespeare's plays are in the public domain. Pygmalion is in the public domain. I'm sure there are many, many more too!
None of Noël Coward's plays are in the public domain. The rights are managed by Alan Brodie Representation: www.alanbrodie.com.
Plays up to and including Back to Methuselah are in the public domain. The remainder are in the public domain in life+50 countries, but protected in life+70 countries (which includes the US). The administrator for these later plays is the Society of Authors, as agent for the Shaw Estate.
Plays up to and including Back to Methuselah are in the public domain. The remainder are in the public domain in life+50 countries, but protected in life+70 countries (which includes Australia). The administrator for these later plays is the Society of Authors, as agent for the Shaw Estate.
The three part episode 'Tales From the Public Domain' (episode 14, season 13). Bart plays Hamlet in the section titled 'Do the Bard, Man'.
We have Shakespeare's works because he wrote them. You can see stage productions or film, or television versions of his plays. You can read his plays in printed form from libraries or bookstores. You can even find public domain versions online from several sources.
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Lewis Carroll's books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are in the public domain, as are the original Tenniel illustrations.As it is well over one hundred years old, the original story is out of copyright, which may account for the thousands of versions of children's books, plays, etc. that you can find based on it.Movie versions and other unique adaptations may or may not be, as well as other illustrations. It depends on when they were released.
Entertained them. Plays were the television of their day.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet is now in the public domain. He also wrote many other plays, such as Romeo and Juliet.Some scholars postulate that there was an older version of "Hamlet" that Shakespeare used as his source material, or at least was aware of. They refer to this anonymous work as "Ur-Hamlet."
William Shakespeare. Hamlet is now in the public domain. He also wrote many other plays, such as Romeo and Juliet.Some scholars postulate that there was an older version of "Hamlet" that Shakespeare used as his source material, or at least was aware of. They refer to this anonymous work as "Ur-Hamlet."
You can buy many famous plays in book form at bookstores and through online book retailers. Some theater monologues are royalty-free, search Incompetech Theater Scripts (http://incompetech.com/theaterscripts) or Euquefiz (http://euquefiz.com) and some of them are in public domain or search Free eBooks by Project Gutenberg(http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page)