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“According to the scrip”: Shakespeare’s text from cue scripts to promptbooks and beyond
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“According to the scrip”: Shakespeare’s text from cue scripts to promptbooks and beyond

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Brittany N. Williams

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
King Henry VIII prompt book
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Explore promptbooks from the 1950s festival Shakespeare Under the Stars

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Esther French

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
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What's my line? Exploring promptbooks for Othello

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Ben Lauer

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
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Play scripts as you like them

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Sarah Hovde

Promptbooks help stage managers and actors keep their, er, act straight. Explore these ‘As You Like It’ promptbooks from the Folger collection.