Promptbooks for productions of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, ca 1850-1938.

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Promptbooks for productions of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, ca 1850-1938.

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Includes an anonymous promptbook for the Theatre Royal, Sadler's Wells, lightly marked for Luciana (no. 32); an actor's part book marked for Antipholus of Ephesus possibly by W. Collins (no. 33); an actor's part book marked for Antipholus of Syracuse signed by Benedict DeBar (no. 34); a promptbook lightly marked with cuts and dialogue signed by Felix A. Vincent (no. 35); and Theodore Komisarjevsky's director's preparation copy for Stratford-Upon-Avon, l938 (no. 36).

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Debar, Benedict, 1812-1877

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