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Field name | Value |
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Title | Coriolanus |
Document Type | Prompt Book |
Reference | Cor 20 |
Primary Association | Forrest, Edwin |
Associated Names | Burrough Wright, John; Scharf, George |
Actor-Manager/Director | Macready, William Charles |
Theatre | Niblo's Garden; Holliday Street; Academy of Music |
Place of Production | New York; Boston; Baltimore; Philadelphia; San Francisco |
Country of Production | United States |
Date of Production | 2 Nov 1863 |
Description | Extremely well used prompt book. This documents was created by John B Wright, stage manager for Edwin Forrest during his later years. |
Genre | Tragedy |
Theme(s) | Royalty, Aristocracy and Class; History, Politics and Corruption |
Roles | scenery - script - cuts - cues - director - stage manager - character - cast - blocking |
Content Keywords | power, soldier, greed, class, pride, destiny, friendship |
Context Keywords | classical history |
Visual Content | Sketches including George Scharf's drawings of the Macready production. |
Edition | Spencer's Boston Theatre edition |
Shattuck Code | COR 22 |
Play | Coriolanus |
Library | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Note | Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Folger Shakespeare Library's online catalogue and 'The Shakespeare Prompt books, A Descriptive Catalogue' by Charles H. Shattuck. |