The name conflict would have been corrected in the theatre promptbook.

The manuscript is annotated with notes by Edward Knight, the company's prompter, to allow its use as the promptbook that guided performances of the play.

The First Folio text of 1623 was based primarily on Q3, with clarifications and corrections possibly coming from a theatrical promptbook or Q1.

(Knight's manuscript for Bonduca is not a promptbook but a presentation MS. In the MSS.

Knight prepared the company's play texts for production, adding stage directions, cues for offstage sounds, and other necessary information to turn an author's or scribe's manuscript into a promptbook.

Welles's promptbook keeps them intact, but in the surviving film record of the production's climax, the line "Hail, King of Scotland" is truncated to "Hail, King".

Using the original 1936 promptbook, in 1977, the Henry Street Settlement's New Federal Theatre revived the production, starring Lex Monson and Esther Rolle.

The most helpful document that remained was Reinhardt's promptbook, which detailed all the cuts in the music and text, but many of these were made at the last minute, for technical rather than artistic reasons.

The prompt book, also called promptbook, transcript, the bible or sometimes simply "the book," is the copy of a production script that contains the information necessary to create a theatrical production from the ground up.

It posits, essentially, that the Quarto derives from something close to Shakespeare's foul papers, and the Folio is drawn in some way from a promptbook, prepared for production by Shakespeare's company or someone else.

The Promus was a rough list of elegant and useful phrases gleaned from reading and conversation that Bacon used as a source book in writing and probably also as a promptbook for oral practice in public speaking.

John Clavell's signature occurs twice in the manuscript, providing clear clues to the author's identity; it may have been Clavell's personal copy of the work, though the manuscript also shows signs that it went through at least the initial stages of preparation for use as a theatrical promptbook.

Jan Werner's eyes took on an acquisitive gleam when she spotted the little blue promptbook for "Rake's Progress: A Melodrama in Three Acts" on the display table of Daniel R. Weinberg, who owns the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop in Chicago.