More Reviews for Four Centuries of Shakespeare: The Prompt Books

Series Three: Prompt Books and Related Material from the Shakespeare Library, Birmingham Public Library "The Gordon Crosse Diaries offer a detailed, methodical and lively firsthand account by an expert and insatiable theatre-goer, while the Theatre Royal prompt books reflect the tastes of a major city...Frank Benson's company is of great importance in the history of Shakespearean production." -- Dr. Russell Jackson, The Shakespeare Institute , University of Birmingham

Series Four: Prompt Books from the Shakespeare Centre Library, Stratford-Upon-Avon "This major collection of prompt books is unusual for recording the history of Shakespeare productions at one theatre, and latterly by one company... The completeness of this record makes this an invaluable archive for the study of a succession of managements, all of them leading presenters of Shakespeare on the stage in their time." -- Dr. Russell Jackson, The Shakespeare Institute University of Birmingham

Series Two: Prompt Books from the Harvard Theatre Collection "Doctoral candidates will find innumerable subjects worthy of treatment, and crucial and historical studies of Shakespeare are enriched by new-found access to essential facts about important Shakespeare productions." -- Charles H. Shattuck, Author of The Shakespeare Prompt Books: A Descriptive Catalogue