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Definition of Prompt copy
1. Noun. The copy of the playscript used by the prompter.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prompt Copy
Literary usage of Prompt copy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. W. B. Yeats: The Writing of Sophocles' King Oedipus by William Butler Yeats, David R. Clark, James B. McGuire (1989)
"It could still have been used a prompt copy in 1926, since it is revised in
Yeats's hand. Many of the revisions on Rex 4, however, ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1849)
"... and changing, in considerable degree, the relative importance of the parts.
When at last the absence of a prompt-copy became too inconvenient for ..."
3. Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography by Gregory (1913)
"I said yes, and I could now bring him the prompt copy. ... I showed him the prompt
copy. He asked if we could not strike out still more. ..."
4. Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography by Gregory, Augusta Gregory (1913)
"I said yes, and I could now bring him the prompt copy. ... I showed him the prompt
copy. He asked if we could not strike out still more. ..."
5. How to Produce Amateur Plays: A Practical Manual by Barrett Harper Clark (1917)
"The making, therefore, of a prompt-copy is a slow process. ... By the time the
actors are letter-perfect, the prompt- copy ought likewise to be fairly ..."
6. Book-prices Current: A Record of Prices at which Books Have Been Sold at Auction (1908)
"... 3 vol., prompt copies— Damon and Pythias, a Tragedy, 1821—Byron (Lord).
The Two Foscari, prompt copy—MS Common-place Book, calf—Shakespeare. ..."
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