Manuscript copy, in an unidentified seventeenth-century hand, of a text of Macbeth very similar to the Sir William Davenant version published in 1674. Ten pages supplied in a modern hand.
Description:
Binding: 18th century marbled boards; contemporary cloth case., Formerly owned by Sir William Turner., and Several additions on slips of paper attached to the pages with sealing wax are possibly in the hand of Sir William Turner.
Subject (Name):
D'Avenant, William,--Sir,--1606-1668, Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616, Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616.--Macbeth, and Turner, William,--Sir,--1615-1692--Ownership
Phelps, Samuel, 1804-1878 Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Sinclair, Henry
Published / Created:
1823?]
Call Number:
Ig 6i 823a
Image Count:
3
Alternative Title:
Macbeth
Description:
Apparently detached from the edition: Plays ... accurately printed from the text of correct copies left by Steevens and Malone ... London: Printed for the trade, 1923. and Title in manuscript on cover. Manuscript notes throughout.
Theobald, Mr. (Lewis), 1688-1744 Warburton, William, 1698-1779
Published / Created:
1726
Call Number:
Osborn pc75
Image Count:
25
Description:
Caption and running title: The examination and correction of the tragedy of Hamlet., Chiefly a discussion of Hamlet; cites parallel passages from other plays of Shakespeare., Imperfect: upper corners chewed and trimmed; part of p. 194 pasted over with clippings., and Manuscript annotations by W. Warburton, bp. of Gloucester.
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a promptbook of Macbeth, written in an interleaved copy of a printed edition of the play. The handwritten notes provide stage directions; scene descriptions; and sound and lighting directions; as well as directions for unnamed characters. The notes also provide explanations for dramatic choices, such as the comment concerning Banquo's murderers, "These are disbanded officers & must therefore be represented as gentlemen not common cutthroats." Occasionally the writer has drawn diagrams of actors' positions or images of scenery; and at the end of the volume, he provides several detailed directions for combat sequences, including one for the final fight between Macbeth and Macduff, involving shoulder blows, leg blows, head blows, groans, and lunges.
Description:
Binding: machine-grain morocco. Pasted on front cover: a printed ticket which reads "Mr. Chas. Pitt Theatre Royal Sheffield. Machbeth." and On flyleaf: engraving of a scene from Macbeth.
Subject (Name):
Macbeth,--King of Scotland, 11th cent.--Drama, Pitt, Charles Dibdin, Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616.--Macbeth, Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Dramatic production--History, and Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Stage history--Sources
Subject (Topic):
English drama--17th century, Promptbooks, Stage fighting, Theater--Production and direction--United States, and Theater--United States--19th century
Volume containing printed texts of four Shakespeare plays (Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Cymbeline) interleaved with manuscript editorial and proofreading notes and comments, probably in the hand of Richard Warner.
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Criticism, Textual and Warner, Richard,--1713?-1775