“According to the scrip”: Shakespeare’s text from cue scripts to promptbooks and beyond
Shakespeare and Beyond
“According to the scrip”: Shakespeare’s text from cue scripts to promptbooks and beyond
Brittany N. Williams looks at cue scripts and their importance to actors in Shakespeare’s time.
Explore promptbooks from the 1950s festival Shakespeare Under the Stars
Shakespeare and Beyond
Explore promptbooks from the 1950s festival Shakespeare Under the Stars
The Folger collection contains a number of prompt books from Shakespeare Under the Stars productions, which were gifts from Arthur Lithgow.
What's my line? Exploring promptbooks for Othello
Shakespeare and Beyond
What's my line? Exploring promptbooks for Othello
Promptbooks let us peer into the minds of some of history’s greatest theater-makers and see how they imagined Shakespeare’s plays.
Play scripts as you like them
Shakespeare and Beyond
Play scripts as you like them
Promptbooks help stage managers and actors keep their, er, act straight. Explore these ‘As You Like It’ promptbooks from the Folger collection.