Definition of promptbook
: a copy of a play with directions for performance used by a theater prompter
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One of those libraries is the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin—which saved two typescripts of the play in a larger collection of scripts and promptbooks of authors like Lillian Hellman and Jean Cocteau.
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