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
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
Blanks not digitized., Part of a collection of 16th century Italian works relating to the Congrega dei Rozzi., Signatures: A¹²(-A12) (A11 blank)., and Woodcut ill on t.p.
Manuscript adaptation of Vanbrugh's play of 1705, itself an adaptation of Flourent-Carton Dancourt's "Bourgoises a la mode" of 1692. The play is farcical representation of middle-class citizens attempting to act like nobility. A verse prologue states that this is the author's first attempt at adaptation, which he has completed because "the wit of Vanbrugh is now out of fashion: language and humour vary with the times."
Description:
Binding: quarter-calf with vellum corners over marbled board front and later textured board rear., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., In English., Inscription on verso of front flyleaf attributes the play and the hand of the MS to Edmund Malone (1741-1812)., Prologue, definitely in Malone's hand, refers to the death of Roscius [probably David Garrick (1717-1779)]., and Rectos only, with some annotations and corrections on versos.
Subject (Name):
Dancourt, Florent Carton,--1661-1725, Malone, Edmond,--1741-1812, and Vanbrugh, John,--Sir,--1664-1726
Subject (Topic):
Comedy--England--18th century, English drama--18th century, and Middle class families--England--Drama
The tragedie of Hamlet, prince of Denmarke / William Shakespeare ; edited by J. Dover Wilson from
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Subject (Name):
Belleforest, Francois de, 1530-1583. Histoires tragiques, Craig, Edward Gordon, 1872-1966, Cranach Presse, Kessler, Harry, Graf, 1868-1937, Saxo, Grammaticus, d. ca. 1204. Gesta Danorum, and Wilson, John Dover, 1881-1969
Collection Created:
Weimar : Printed by Count Harry Kessler at the Cranach Press, 1930
