In the time of William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, before the first notion of "royalties" from a show, how did playwrights make money off a show once they sold it to a company?
A. Individual investors would pay the playwright to write more if they liked the play that they saw.
B. They didn't receive any money unless the script was changed, in which case they received a small fee for each change.
C. They didn't make money because once a play was sold, because the playwright no longer retained any rights to it.
D. Playwrights in Shakespeare's day never sold their plays but simply produced them themselves.
Answer: C
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