This primary source collection of documents offers insights into the performance practice in the particular space of the reconstructed Globe Theatre. It details the way in which the theatre was constructed as a place of radical experiment. It documents over 200 performances through prompt books, wardrobe notes, programmes, publicity material, annual reports, show reports, photographs and architectural plans.

Cowles Library has hundreds of scripts in our collection. This link provides results categorized as American Drama, but you can also search by play title or playwright.

Cowles Library has hundreds of scripts, including many one-act plays, donated by Michael Rothmayer of the Theatre Arts Department.

This primary source collection contains rare and unique prompt books from the world-famous Folger Shakespeare Library. These prompt books tell the story of Shakespeare’s plays as they were performed in theatres throughout Great Britain, the United States and internationally, between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries.