Acajou (Favart)
Actors, acting, and Acting Companies: France
Alfieri, Vittorio
Algieri, Pietro
Alzire (Voltaire)
Arlequin Refined by Love (Marivaux)
Arteaga, Stefano
Atreus and Thyestes (Crebillon)
Audinot's Theatre
Auditoriums
Ballet
Barber of Seville, The (Beaumarchais)
Baron, Michel
Baroque style
Beaubour, Pierre-Trochon de
Beaumarchais (Pierre-Augustin Caron)
Benozzi, Giovanni
Berain, Jean fils
Bibiena family
Boquet, Louis-René
Borders (scenery)
Boucher, François
Boulevard theatres (Paris)
Burnacini, Giovanni
Burnacini, Ludovico Ottavio
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro
Champmelsé, Mlle
Characters: French farce
Chariot-and-pole (scene shifting)
Clairon, Mlle (Claire-Josèphe-Hippolyte Léris de la Tude)
Comédie Française
Comédie Italienne
Comédie larmoyante
Comédies-en-vaudevilles
Comedy: Manners
Comic opera
Comic Theatre, The (Goldoni)
Commedia dell'arte: France
Commedia dell'arte: Italy
Compardon, Emile
Costume: England
Costume: France
Costume: Greece
Costumes et Annales des Grand Théâtres de Paris (Charnois)
Crébillon, Prosper Jolyot
Dance: France
Dancourt, Florent-Carton
Dangeville, Marie-Anne Botot
Designers
Desmares, Charlotte
Dialogue
Diderot, Denis
Diderot, Denis
Domestic tragedy
Dramatists: France
Dramatists: Italy
Drame
Drops
Duclos, Mlle (Marie-Anne de Chateuneuf)
Dumesnil, Mlle (Marie-Françoise Marchand)
Electre (Crebillon)
Encyclopédie (Diderot)
Entr'acte entertainment
Eugénie (Beaumarchais)
Fair theatres (Paris)
False Antipathy (LaChaussée)
Fan, The (Goldoni)
Farce
Fashionable Gentlemen, The (Dancourt)
Fashionable Prejudice, The (LaChaussée)
Father of a Family, The (Diderot)
Favart, Charles-Simon
Favart, Marie-Justine
Fourth Wall
France: 1700–1800
Galliari family
Gambler, The (Regnard)
Game of Love and Chance, The (Marivaux)
Gamester, The (Moore)
Garrick, David
Gigolo
Gluck, Christoph Willibald
Golden Apple, The
Goldoni, Carlo
Goldsmith, Oliver
Government regulation of theatre
Gozzi, Carlo
Grandval, Charles-François de
Hauser, Arnold
Hôtel de Bourgogne (Paris)
Illegitimate Son, The (Diderot)
Ino and Mélicerte (LaGrange-Chancel)
Intermezzi (Italy)
Italy: 1700–1800
Juvarra, Filippo
LaChaussée, Pierre Claude Nivelle de
LaGaussin, Mlle (Jeanne-Catherine Gaussens)
LaGrange-Chancel, Joseph de
Landriani, Paolo
Larive (Jean Mauduit)
Lecouvreur, Adrienne
Lekain, Henri-Louis
LeSage, Alain René
Letters on the Dance and Ballet (Noverre)
Licensing (theatres, plays
Lighting
Lines of business
Louis, Victor
Love for Three Oranges, The (Gozzi)
Loves of Bastien and Bastienne, The
Maffei, Francesco di Scipione
Marivaudage
Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamberlain de
Marmontel, Jean François
Marriage of Figaro, The (Beaumarchais)
Mauro family
Mayor, A. Hyatt
Melodrama
Mercier, Louis Sebastian
Merope (Maffei)
Metastasio (Pietro Trapassi)
Mistress of the Inn, The (Goldoni)
Molé, François-Rene
Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Monopolies
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Music
Nanine (Voltaire)
Naturalism
Neoclassicism
Nicolet's Theatre (Paris)
Noverre, Jean Georges
Odéon (Paris)
Oedipe (Voltaire)
Oldfield, Anne
Opera
Opéra (Paris)
Opera: comic
Opéras-comique
Oreste (Alfieri)
Orphan of China, The (Voltaire)
Orpheus and Eurydice (Gluck)
Palais à volonté
Palais Royal (Paris)
Pantomime
Paradox of the Actor, The (Diderot)
Patte, Pierre
Pensionnaires (France)
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista
Perspective scenery
Philosopher Without Knowing It, A (Sédaine)
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista
Pit (Parterre)
Playwrights: methods of paying
Porte-Saint-Martin Theatre (Paris)
Préville (Pierre-Louis Dubus)
Prodigal Son, The (Voltaire)
Proscenium arch
Quaglio family
Quinault-Dufresne
Racine, Jean
Raucourt, Mlle
Realism
Regnard, Jean-François
Rhadamisthe and Zénobie (Crebillon)
Riccoboni, Luigi
Rojas Zorilla, Francisco de
Romanticism
Royal Dramatic School (Paris)
Salle des Machines
Saul (Alfieri)
Scena per angolo
Scene painting
Scenery: France
Scenery: Italy
Sédaine, Michel-Jean
Servandoni, Jean-Nicolas
Servant the Mistress, The (Pergolesi)
Sharing companies
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
Shutters (scenery)
Singspiele
Sociétaires (France)
Society of Dramatic Authors (France)
Special effects
Spectacle
Suarin, Bernard-Joseph
Tancréde (Voltaire)
Tennis court theatres
Theatre architecture: France
Theatre architecture: Italy
Théâtre des Associés (Paris)
Théâtre des Tuileries (Paris)
Three Sultans, The
Torelli, Giacomo
Touring
Tragedy: domestic (England)
Turandot (Gozzi)
Turcaret (LeSage)
Understudy
Universal Heir, The (Regnard)
Variétés Amusantes
Vernet, Joseph
Vestris, Mme (François-Marie-Rosette Gougaud)
Vigarani, Gaspare
Voix du sang
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
Wings (scenery)
Zaïre (Voltaire)
Zeno, Apostolo

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