Overview
Prompt books of plays directed by American author and Broadway producer Charles Bowden.
Dates
- Creation: 1956-1961
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.
Extent
.75 linear feet (7 volumes)Includes seven prompt books of productions directed by Charles Bowden, Peter Glenville, and Frank Corsaro. Prompt books include mimeograph or typescript copies with manuscript annotations of Auntie Mame by Jerome Lawrence,The chalk garden by Enid Bagnold,Fallen angels by Noel Coward, Hotel Paradiso by Georges Feydeau, The night of the iguana by Tennessee Williams, Nina by André Roussin, andSeason of choice by Nathaniel Banks.
Biographical / Historical
Bowden was an American author and Broadway producer.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
64M-261. Gift of Mr. Charles Bowden, 230 West 41st Street, Suite 1504, New York, New York 10036; received: 1965 March.
- Title
- Bowden, Charles. Charles Bowden prompt books, 1956-1961: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou00874
Repository Details
Part of the Houghton Library Repository
Houghton Library is Harvard College's principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, archives, and more. Houghton Library's collections represent the scope of human experience from ancient Egypt to twenty-first century Cambridge. With strengths primarily in North American and European history, literature, and culture, collections range in media from printed books and handwritten manuscripts to maps, drawings and paintings, prints, posters, photographs, film and audio recordings, and digital media, as well as costumes, theater props, and a wide range of other objects. Houghton Library has historically focused on collecting the written record of European and Eurocentric North American culture, yet it holds a large and diverse number of primary sources valuable for research on the languages, culture and history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.
Houghton Library’s Reading Room is free and open to all who wish to use the library’s collections.
Harvard Yard
Harvard University
Cambridge MA 02138 USA
(617) 495-2440
Houghton_Library@harvard.edu