Prompt copy of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' as adapted by Charles Marowitz

Typescript prompt copy, with manuscript annotations and additional scene, together with two letters from Marowitz to Tom Matheson relating to the prompt copy, 1966

Charles Marowitz (b 1934) is an American writer and critic, playwright and theatre director. He founded the Open Space Theatre in London and worked as an assistant to Peter Brook at the Royal Shakespeare Company. From 1965, he adapted a number of Shakespeare plays including Hamlet, Macbeth and Othello, published separately and collectively as 'The Marowitz Shakespeare'

Tom Matheson (d 2006) was a fellow of the Shakespeare Institute and lecturer in the English Department at the University of Birmingham

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Formerly catalogued as a pamphlet, accession number 11322802, Shakespeare Institute Library