by Beth Burns, Hidden Room Theatre Artistic Director John Wilkes Booth’s promptbook for Richard III “Ready trumpet. Boy ready with armor. Take time. More piano. Long flourish continued till discovery, next Sc. – and do not W Till Mr Booth is on stage.”
Books + Manuscripts
Interview with Ian McEwan
The Harry Ransom Center spoke with Ian McEwan in 2014 about archives, contemporary British fiction, science and the humanities, and where to find paradise on earth. McEwan’s archive is accessible at the Ransom Center.
Fellows Find: Multilingual readers in Shakespeare’s England
I visited the Harry Ransom Center last July to research bilingual and multilingual dictionaries, grammars, and language manuals printed in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.