Definition of Prompt copy

1. Noun. The copy of the playscript used by the prompter.

Exact synonyms: Promptbook
Generic synonyms: Book, Playscript, Script

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prompt Copy

promotingly
promotion
promotion system
promotional
promotional expense
promotional material
promotionally
promotions
promotive
promotiveness
promotivenesses
promotor
promotors
prompt
prompt box
prompt copy (current term)
promptbook
promptbooks
prompted
prompter
prompter's box
prompters
promptest
prompting
promptingly
promptings
promptitude
promptitudes
promptless
promptly

Literary usage of Prompt copy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. W. B. Yeats: The Writing of Sophocles' King Oedipus by William Butler Yeats, David R. Clark, James B. McGuire (1989)
"It could still have been used a prompt copy in 1926, since it is revised in Yeats's hand. Many of the revisions on Rex 4, however, ..."

2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1849)
"... and changing, in considerable degree, the relative importance of the parts. When at last the absence of a prompt-copy became too inconvenient for ..."

3. Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography by Gregory (1913)
"I said yes, and I could now bring him the prompt copy. ... I showed him the prompt copy. He asked if we could not strike out still more. ..."

4. Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography by Gregory, Augusta Gregory (1913)
"I said yes, and I could now bring him the prompt copy. ... I showed him the prompt copy. He asked if we could not strike out still more. ..."

5. How to Produce Amateur Plays: A Practical Manual by Barrett Harper Clark (1917)
"The making, therefore, of a prompt-copy is a slow process. ... By the time the actors are letter-perfect, the prompt- copy ought likewise to be fairly ..."

6. Book-prices Current: A Record of Prices at which Books Have Been Sold at Auction (1908)
"... 3 vol., prompt copies— Damon and Pythias, a Tragedy, 1821—Byron (Lord). The Two Foscari, prompt copy—MS Common-place Book, calf—Shakespeare. ..."

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