How Bootlegs Affect The Way We Think About Art

“Bootlegging is, of course, a long artistic tradition. It’s one Shakespeare himself alludes to in The Winter’s Tale….” With the release of the eighth volume in Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series, Ron Rosenbaum argues that “Dylan culture, especially Dylan bootleg culture, figures into the way we assess ‘authorized’ and ‘unauthorized’ work by other great artists such as Shakespeare and Nabokov.”