Actors, acting, and Acting Companies: England
Actors, acting, and Acting Companies: France
Actors, acting, and Acting Companies: Russia
Actors, acting, and Acting Companies: United States
African Company
African Grove, The (New York)
Aldridge, Ira
Alexandrinsky Theatre (Leningrad)
Ambigu-Comique (Paris)
Ambrosio, or the Monk (Lewis)
American (Camp Street) Theatre (New Orleans)
American school of acting
Amphitheatre
Ancestress, The (Grillparzer)
André (Dunlap)
Anschütz, Heinrich
Antigone (Sophocles)
Antony (Dumas père)
Arch Street Theatre (Philadelphia)
Astley's Amphitheatre
Astor Place Riot
Athenaeum, Das
Audiences
Auditoriums
Baillie, Joanna
Baker, Benjamin
Ballet
Barker, James Nelson
Barker, Robert
Barometer-Maker and the Magical Island, The (Raimund)
Beaux' Stratagem, The (Farquhar)
Benefit system
Bernard, John
Betty, William Henry West
Beverley, William Roxby
Bird, Robert Montgomery
Black theatre in America
Black-eyed Susan (Jerrold)
Bocage
Bolshoi Theatre (St. Petersburgh)
Booth, Junius Brutus
Boris Gudonov (Pushkin)
Boston Museum
Boulevard theatres (Paris)
Bowery Theatre (New York)
Box set
Bride of Messina, The (Schiller)
Broker of Bogota, The (Bird)
Brougham, John
Brown, William Henry
Browning, Robert
Bruhl, Karl
Brutus (Payne)
Büchner, Georg
Buckstone, John Baldwin
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George
Bunn, Alfred
Burgtheater (Vienna)
Burlesque
Burletta
Byron, Lord (George Gordon)
Caigniez, Louis
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro
Caldwell, James H.
Canada
Capon, William
Carl, Karl
Castle Spectre, The (Lewis)
Cenci, The (Shelley)
Censorship
Chamberlain, Lord
Chanfrau, Frank S.
Chapman, William
Charles II (Payne)
Charles IX (Chénier)
Chénier, Marie-Joseph
Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia)
Christine (Dumas père)
Christy, E.P.
Ciceri, Pierre-Luc-Charles
Cid, Le (Corneille)
Circuses
Cirque Olympique
City Theatre (Charleston)
Coelina (Pixérécourt)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Comédie Française
Comédie Italienne
Comédies-en-vaudevilles
Comic opera
Conservatoire (Paris)
Contrast, The (Tyler)
Cooke, George Frederick
Cooke, T.P.
Cooper, Thomas Abthorpe
Coriolanus (Shakespeare)
Costenoble, Ludwig
Costume: England
Costume: France
Costume: Germany
Covent Garden (London)
Cromwell (Hugo)
Cushman, Charlotte
Custis, George Washington Parke
Cyclorama
Daguerre, Louis-Jacques
Dance: United States
Danton's Death (Büchner)
Dawison, Bogumil
Death's Head (Pixérécourt)
Deburau, Jean-Gaspard
Decree of Moscow
Delavigne, Casimir
DeLoutherbourg, Philippe Jacques
Desgarcins, Mlle
Designers
Devrient, Emil
Devrient, Ludwig
Diamond, Jack
Didelot, Charles
Diorama
Directing and directors: France
Directing and directors: Germany
Dmitrevsky, Ivan
Dmitri Donskoi (Ozerov)
Domestic melodrama
Don Juan and Faust (Grabbe)
Door Should Be Either Shut or Open, A (Musset)
Dorval, Mme
Douglass troupe
Drake, Samuel
Dramatists: England
Dramatists: France
Dramatists: Germany
Dramatists: Russia
Dramatists: United States
Dramaturg
Dream of Life, The (Grillparzer)
Drummond, Thomas
Drunkard, The (Smith)
Drury Lane Theatre (London)
Ducange, Victor
Duchenois, Mlle
Duff, Mary Ann
Dumas, Alexandre père
Dunlap, William
Egan, Pierce
Elliston, Robert
Emmett, Dan
England: 1800–1850
Entr'acte entertainment
Esslair, Ferdinand
Evil Spirit Lumpazivagabundus, The (Nestroy)
Exile's Daughter, The (Pixérécourt)
Farquhar, George
Fashion (Mowatt)
Fate tragedy
Father, The (Dunlap)
Faucit, Helen
Faust (Goethe)
Federal Street Theatre (Boston)
Fennell, James
Fitzball, Edward
Fleury, Abraham-Joseph
Forest Rose, The (Woodworth)
Forrest, Edwin
Foster, J.
France: 1700–1800
France: 1789–1815
France: 1800–1850
Franconi, Laurent
Fulton, Robert
Garrick, David
Gas lighting
Gas table
Gentlemanly melodrama
George, Mlle
Germany: 1648–1800
Germany: 1800–1850
Gilbert, William S.
Gladiator, The (Bird)
Glance at New York, A (Baker)
Glinka, Mikhail
Globe, The (London)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Gogol, Nikolai
Golden Fleece, The (Grillparzer)
Government regulation of theatre
Grabbe, Christian Dietrich
Green Mountain Boy, The (Jones)
Griboyedov, Alexander
Grillparzer, Franz
Grimsted, David
Gutzkow, Karl
Gymnase Théâtre (Paris)
Hackett, James, H.
Hallam, Lewis, Jr.
Hallam family
Hanswurst
Harel, Jean-Charles
Haymarket Theatre (London)
Hebbel, Friedrich
Hegel, G.W. F.
Henri III and His Court , (Dumas père)
Henry, John
Henry IV, Part I (Shakespeare)
Henry V (Shakespeare)
Hernani (Hugo)
Hewlett, James
Hicks, Charles
Hill, George Handel
Historical accuracy
History of British Costume (Planché)
History of the American Theatre (Dunlap)
Hodgkinson, John
Holcroft, Thomas
Holland, John J.
House of Temperaments, The (Nestroy)
Houwald, Ernst von
Hugo, Victor
Hunchback, The (Knowles)
Iffland, August Wilhelm
Immermann, Karl
Indian Princess, The (Barker)
Indian Prophecy, The (Custis)
Inspector General, The (Gogol)
Jefferson, Joseph I
Jerrold, Douglas William
Jim Crow
John Street Theatre (New York)
Jonathan Bradford (Fitzball)
Jonathan in England (Hackett)
Jones, J.S.
Judith (Hebbel)
Julia (Payne)
Kaiser Octavianus (Tieck)
Kant, Immanuel
Karatygin, Vassily
Karls Schoolboy, The (Schiller)
Kean, Charles
Kean, Edmund
Keats, John
Keeley, Robert
Kemble, Charles
Kemble, Frances Anne
Kemble, John Philip
Kemble, Roger
Kemble, Stephen
King, Thomas
King Amuses Himself, The (Hugo)
King John (Shakespeare)
King Lear (Shakespeare)
King Shotaway (Brown)
King's Theatre (London)
Kleist, Heinrich von
Knowles, James Sheridan
Kotzebue, August Friedrich von
Kukolnik, Nestor
Lady of Lyons, The (Bulwer-Lytton)
Laube, Heinrich
Lemaître, Frederick
LeMercier, Népomucène
Leonce and Lena (Büchner)
Leopoldstadter Theater (Vienna)
Lermontov, Mikhail
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
Levine, Lawrence
Lewes, G.H.
Lewis, Matthew Gregory
Licensing (theatres, plays
Licensing Act of 1737 (England)
Life in London (Egan)
Life is a Dream (Calderón)
Lighting
Limelight
Lines of business
Liston, John
Lorenzaccio (Musset)
Lowenthal, Leo
Ludlow, Noah
Luke the Laborer (Buckstone)
Lyceum Theatre (London)
Macbeth (Shakespeare)
Macready, William C.
Maid of Orleans, The (Schiller)
Maly Theatre (Moscow)
Management, theatre
Marble, Dan
Maria Magdalena (Hebbel)
Marino Faliero (Byron)
Marion Delorme (Hugo)
Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamberlain de
Mars, Mlle
Marshall, Charles
Masquerade (Lermontov)
Matchmaker, The (Wilder)
Mathews, Charles the Elder
Mathews, Charles the Younger
Melmoth, Charlotte
Melodrama
Merry, Anne Brunton
Metamora (Stone)
Midsummer Night's Dream, A (Shakespeare)
Mikhailovsky Theatre (St. Petersburgh)
Minstrel Show
Minstrels
Misanthrope, The (Molière)
Mochalov, Pavel
Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Molson, John
Monopolies
Moor of Venice, The (Vigny)
Mowatt, Anna Cora
Müllner, Gottfried
Munden, Joseph
Murdoch, Frank H.
Murdoch, William
Music
Musset, Alfred de
National Theater (Berlin)
Native Americans: in drama
Neoclassicism
Nestroy, Johann Nepomuk
New Way to Pay Old Debts, A (Massinger)
Niebelung trilogy (Hebbel)
No Trifling with Love (Musset)
Noverre, Jean Georges
Odeion (Athens)
Odéon (Paris)
Of Germany (Staël)
Oldmixon, Mrs.
Olympic Theatre (London)
Olympic Theatre (New York)
O'Neill, Eliza
Opera
Opéra (Paris)
Opera: comic
Opéra-Comique, Theatre National de l' (Paris)
Oralloosa (Bird)
Orleans Theatre (New Orleans)
Othello (Shakespeare)
Out for a Lark (Nestroy)
Owens, John E.
Ozerov, Vladislav
Panorama-Dramatique
Panoramas
Park Theatre (New York)
Patents (England)
Payne, John Howard
Pensionnaires (France)
People's Lawyer, The (Jones)
Phèdre (Racine)
Phelps, Samuel
Pierrot
Pisarev, Alexander
Pixérécourt, René Charles Guilbert de
Pizarro (Kotzebue)
Pizarro (Sheridan)
Placide, Alexandre
Planché, James Robinson
Playwrights: methods of paying
Po-ca-hon-tas (Brougham)
Pocahontas (Custis)
Polevoy, Nikolai
Ponsard, François
Ponteach (Rogers)
Popular culture
Porte-Saint-Martin Theatre (Paris)
Powell, Charles Stuart
Powell, Snelling
Power, Tyrone
Prévost, Pierre
Price, Stephen
Prince of Homburg, The (Kleist)
Prometheus Unbound (Shelley)
Prompters
Pushkin, Alexander
Rachel
Racine, Jean
Racine and Shakespeare (Stendhal)
Raimund, Ferdinand
Realism
Reinagle, Alexander
Reinhardt, Max
Rice, Thomas D.
Richard III (Shakespeare)
Richards, John Inigo
Richelieu (Bulwer-Lytton)
Robbers, The (Schiller)
Rogers, Robert
Romanticism
Royal Circus
Royal Dramatic School (Paris)
Russia: 1800–1850
Ruy Blas (Hugo)
Ryan, Dennis
Sadler's Wells Theatre (London)
Sand, George
Sardanapalus (Byron)
Scenery: England
Scenery: France
Scenery: Germany
Scenery: United States
Schiller, Friedrich
Schinkel, Karl Friedrich
Schlegel, August Wilhelm
Schreyvogel, Josef
Schröder, Sophie
Scott, Sir Walter
Scribe, Eugène
Semper, Gottfried
Semyonova, Yekaterina
Serf theatres (Russia)
Seydelmann, Karl
Shakespeare, William
Shakhovskoy, Prince Alexander
Sharing companies
Shchepkin, Mikhail
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
Showboats
Siddons, Sarah
Silsbee, Joshua
Simpson, Edmund
Skene
Smith, Hamilton
Smith, Solomon
Smith, William H.
Sociétaires (France)
Society of Dramatic Authors (France)
Sollee, John Joseph
Sontag, Susan
Sophocles
Special effects
Spectacle
St. Charles Theatre (New Orleans)
Staël, Mme de
Stage: Germany
Stanfield, Clarkson
Stanislavsky, Konstantin
Stendhal
Stolypin, A.E.
Stone, John Augustus
Stoppard, Tom
Storm-and-Stress (Sturm und Drang) playwrights
Stranitzky, Joseph Anton
Stubenrach, Philipp von
Sullivan, Sir Arthur
Superstition (Barker)
Surrey Theatre
Taglioni, Marie
Tale of Mystery, A (Holcroft)
Talma, François-Joseph
Taylor, Baron
Teatro Olimpico (Vicenza)
Thayer, James
Theater am der Wien
Theatre architecture: Germany
Théâtre de la Gaite (Paris)
Théâtre de la République (Paris)
Théâtre des Funambules (Paris)
Théâtre Feydeau (Paris)
Théâtre Historique
Theatre of Common Sense
Theatre Regulation Act (1843; England)
Thirty Years, or the Life of a Gambler (Ducange)
Three Musketeers, The (Dumas père)
Tieck, Ludwig
Touring
Trip to America, A (Mathews)
Trip to Niagara, A (Dunlap)
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare)
Twenty-Fourth of February, The (Werner)
Tyler, Royall
United States: 1781–1815
United States: 1815–1850
Uriel Acosta (Gutzkow)
Variétés Amusantes
Vaudeville
Vaudeville
Venetian Night, A (Musset)
Verona, Bartolomeo
Vestris, Mme (L.E. Bartolozzi)
Victor, or the Child of the Forest (Pixérécourt)
Vigny, Alfred de
Wall, Thomas
Wallack, James W.
Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia)
Warner, Mrs. Mary
Warren, William
Weimar classicism
Weiss, Jakob
Werner, Zacharias
Werner (Byron)
Whitlock, Eliza Kemble
Wignell, Thomas
Wilder, Thornton
William Tell (Knowles)
Woe from Wit (Griboyedov)
Wolff, Pius Alexander
Wood, William
Woodworth, Samuel
Wordsworth, William
Yakovlev, Aleksey
Yankee character
Young, Charles Mayne
Young Germany

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