Stoker argues for control over dramatic adaptations

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A New Zealand theatre column reports Bram’s evidence to a House of Lords committee on dramatic copyright. He argues that novelists should control adaptations of their books and that playwrights should likewise control the conversion of plays into novels. The Lyceum’s Faust illustrates how a stage production could increase demand for an existing book; The Dead Heart supplies the reverse example of a novelisation benefiting from a successful play. The item is significant evidence of Bram’s professional interest in authors’ rights during the year Dracula appeared. It is a contemporary report of his position, rather than the verbatim committee transcript.

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