The Prompter

The Prompter
Author: Eustace Budgell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 362
Release: 1734
Genre: Theater
ISBN:

The Prompter

The Prompter
Author: William B. De Garmo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 106
Release: 1868
Genre:
ISBN:

The Prompter's Hand Book

The Prompter's Hand Book
Author: J. A. French
Publisher: Philadelphia : O. Ditson Company, [18--]
Total Pages: 98
Release: 1893
Genre: Country dancing
ISBN:

Similar to other prompter's books published during the last half of the nineteenth century, French gives instructions for calling the figures of quadrilles including examples of how the calls correlate to the music. The book also covers the calling of contra dances (progressive figure dances performed by a column of men facing a column of women).

The Arena

The Arena
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 818
Release: 1892
Genre: American essays
ISBN:

The Narrator, the Expositor, and the Prompter in European Medieval Theatre

The Narrator, the Expositor, and the Prompter in European Medieval Theatre
Author: Philip Butterworth
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN:

This work examines the role of the prompter who operated in full view of the audience and offered all the lines to the players. Such a role and its function is fascinating, not only in its own right, but also in relation to how it might inform us about the nature and purpose of presented theatre.