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beccaelizabethI keep on finding out more things I don't know and have to look up.
Like, I wanted to find out if I could get the exact version of Hamlet the RSC are using right now. Because it says in the programme there's many and they rearrange bits.
I looked on the FAQ page and it says
I’d like to get hold of an RSC promptbook.
All our archives are held by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford (www.shakespeare.org). They will photocopy and send promptbooks for a fee.
So I look up promptbook and it is apparently all the everything you need to make that version of the play, like all the words *and* all the things done and stuff. Wiki says
the copy of a production script that contains the information necessary to create the production from the ground up. It is a compilation of all blocking, business, light, speech and sound cues, lists of properties, drawings of the set, contact information for the cast and crew, and any other information that might be necessary to help the production run smoothly.
Which is exactly what I'd want, so I can study and look stuff up and write about that version I watched.
Except if it is archives then that probably don't mean ones they're using right now.
And the bit about contact information seems rather unlikely.
Also www.shakespeare.org leads to a page for Shakespeare & Company, 70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA 01240. Which isn't the same place at all.
http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/
is the one they mean.
I shall email and tell them.
... also http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/index.php says 'Hacked By' and some name. Which probably isn't the content they meant to have. *sigh* another email there then...
why people do that?
why people bother do that to Shakespeare???
Like, I wanted to find out if I could get the exact version of Hamlet the RSC are using right now. Because it says in the programme there's many and they rearrange bits.
I looked on the FAQ page and it says
I’d like to get hold of an RSC promptbook.
All our archives are held by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford (www.shakespeare.org). They will photocopy and send promptbooks for a fee.
So I look up promptbook and it is apparently all the everything you need to make that version of the play, like all the words *and* all the things done and stuff. Wiki says
the copy of a production script that contains the information necessary to create the production from the ground up. It is a compilation of all blocking, business, light, speech and sound cues, lists of properties, drawings of the set, contact information for the cast and crew, and any other information that might be necessary to help the production run smoothly.
Which is exactly what I'd want, so I can study and look stuff up and write about that version I watched.
Except if it is archives then that probably don't mean ones they're using right now.
And the bit about contact information seems rather unlikely.
Also www.shakespeare.org leads to a page for Shakespeare & Company, 70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA 01240. Which isn't the same place at all.
http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/
is the one they mean.
I shall email and tell them.
... also http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/index.php says 'Hacked By' and some name. Which probably isn't the content they meant to have. *sigh* another email there then...
why people do that?
why people bother do that to Shakespeare???
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Date: 2008-08-05 01:51 am (UTC)~ c.
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Date: 2008-08-05 02:17 am (UTC)Torchwood and Hamlet is a combination there should be more of.
Sometimes I post Big Thinking about Shakespeare. Sometimes I post a lot about my laundry. Just so you know.