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I am pretty sure that the public domaine had little to do with it as these (and other) authors have been published/analized/rewritten relentlessly by various people and when producing a movie the cost of the script is pretty negligible overall.
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They can be published and rewritten because they are in the public domain. If people had to pay to put on a performance of Shakespeare. it would have been rarely performed, and probably faded to obscurity. Shakespeare wasn't always held in the same regard that it is today.