Press Books and Prompt Books

Prompt books from the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.: basic documentary sources concerning text and performances.

Prompt books for all of Shakespeare's plays except Titus Andronicus. Materials range from complete revisions of plays to copies with the direction of entrances and exits shown. Also included are materials on lighting, costumes, music, etc., and printed souvenir books. The 19th-century collection is particularly strong.