Definition of Promptbooks

1. promptbook [n] - See also: promptbook

Lexicographical Neighbors of Promptbooks

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

Literary usage of Promptbooks

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

1. The Bookman (1906)
"Nothing could be more interesting to many a student of Shakespeare than a collection of promptbooks, showing how Hamlet, for example, ..."

2. Letters of an Old Playgoer by Matthew Arnold, Columbia University Dramatic Museum (1916)
"Nothing would be more interesting to many a student of Shakspere than a collection of promptbooks, showing how 'Hamlet,' for example, ..."

3. A Catalog of Models and of Stage-sets in the Dramatic Museum of Columbia by Columbia University Dramatic Museum, Brander Matthews (1916)
"Nothing would be more interesting to many a student of Shakspere than a collection of promptbooks, showing how 'Hamlet,' for example, ..."

4. Teachers College Record by Columbia University. Teachers College (1916)
"Schools willing to contribute to this collection of promptbooks, with costume-sketches, stage-plots, pictures, expense accounts, and other information ..."

5. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1897)
"THE YIDDISH & ENGLISH THEATRE IN NEW YORK, 1918-1949 2nd Floor Gallery Selections of photographs, plays, promptbooks, scripts, and theatre programmes from a ..."

6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1813)
"... as to the gradual progress of morality : for although most of the really obnoxious passages have been expunged from the promptbooks of the Theatres, ..."

7. The Gentleman's Magazine (1856)
"... is supposed to have been taken from an imperfect copy in the promptbooks, or to have been fraudulently obtained. The Devonshire copy, till now unique, ..."

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