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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
Define accurate. If you mean the pure and unchanged words of the author, then we don't have an accurate version of most stories. Editors have been known to change a few things in stories.
You also seem to consider that it is bad to have two different versions of Hamlet. I would say that two is better than one.
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What I am doing is pointing out that Helprin (and other authors) maintain that copyright protection makes it much more possible to create and promulgate an authoritative version of what the author creates. The kind of variences you are talking about have nothing to do with that point.
As for Hamlet, I'd be happier to have the Hamlet Shakespeare wrote, with any revisions he himself made, rather than pieces of Hamlets from different performances, imperfectly recalled by actors and playgoers, collected after his death and put together these days in various ways by modern textural theorists in an attempt to reconstruct what Hamlet looked like.
And I will guarentee you that Shakespeare would have loved copyright, and mocked you in the famous play he never wrote,
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