Shakespeares tragedy of Macbeth, prepared for the stage / by Charles Dibdin Pitt. United States. 1848, 1848.

Creator:

Pitt, Charles Dibdin

Physical Description:

1 v. (168 p.) ; 15 x 9 cm.

Notes:

Binding: machine-grain morocco. Pasted on front cover: a printed ticket which reads "Mr. Chas. Pitt Theatre Royal Sheffield. Machbeth."
On flyleaf: engraving of a scene from Macbeth.

Abstract:

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.

Topics:

English drama--17th century
Promptbooks
Stage fighting
Theater--Production and direction--United States
Theater--United States--19th century

Topics:

Macbeth,--King of Scotland, 11th cent.--Drama
Pitt, Charles Dibdin
Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616.--Macbeth
Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Dramatic production--History
Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Stage history--Sources

Language:

English

Genre:

Annotations
drawings (AAT)
Engravings.--aat
Frontispieces (Illustrations)
manuscripts (AAT)
Notes
Plays
sketches (AAT)

Format:

Text

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Public

Related Exhibit or Resource:

Remembering Shakespeare

Call Number:

Osborn d156

Orbis Record:

7041256

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection

oid pointer:

1370997

Citation:

Charles Dibdin Pitt, Shakespeares Tragedy of Macbeth. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Extent of digitization:

Partial work digitized.

OID:

10000509

PID:

digcoll:3708958