Accesi troupe
Achilles (Laschi)
Actors, acting, and Acting Companies: Italy
Alberti, Leon Battista
Aleotti, Giovan Battista
Aminta (Tasso)
Andreini, Francesco
Andreini, Giambattista
Andreini, Isabella
Architectura, De (Vitruvius)
Architettura (Serlio)
Ariosto, Lodovico
Art of Poetry, The (Horace)
Ascensius, Jodius Bodius
Atellan farce
Ballet
Ballets de cour
Baroque style
Battle of the Argonauts, The
Beolco, Angelo
Bibbiena, Bernardo Dovizi da
Boccaccio
Box, pit, and gallery
Brunelleschi, Filippo
Buontalenti, Bernardo
Calandria, La (Bibbiena)
Camerata of Florence
Casket, The (Ariosto)
Castelvetro, Lodovico
Cecchini, Pier Maria
Characters: commedia dell'arte
Chariot-and-pole (scene shifting)
Church and theatre
Cicero
Cinthio, Giambattista Giraldi
City Dionysia
Comedy: Italy
Commedia dell'arte: Italy
Commedia dell'arte: origins of
Commedia erudita
Confidants
Confidenti troupe
Constantinople
Construction of Theatres and Theatrical Machinery (Motta)
Council of Trent
Curtains, stage
Dafne (Rinuccini, Caccini, and Peri)
Dance: Italy
Dante
Decameron, The (Boccaccio)
Decorum
Della Pittura (Alberti)
Desiosi troupe
Dialogue
Divine Comedy, The (Dante)
Dramatists: Italy
Eccerinus (Mussato)
Faithful Shepherd, The (Guarini)
Farce
Festivals
Fideli Company
Furttenbach, Joseph
Gelosi troupe
Giotto
Guarini, Giambattista
Horace
Humanism
Index Expurgatorius
Ingegneri, Angelo
Intermezzi (Italy)
Italy: 1400–1700
Jocundus
Jones, Inigo
Laetus, Pomponius
Larson, Orville
Laschi, Antonio
Lazzi
Leonardo da Vinci
Lighting
Machiavelli, Niccolò
Machinery, stage
Mandrake, The (Machiavelli)
Mannerist
Manual for Constructing Theatrical Scenes and Machines (Sabbattini)
Martinelli, Tristano
Masaccio
Masque of the Genealogy of the Gods, A
Menaechmi, The (Plautus)
Middle Ages
Minturno, Antonio
Monteverdi, Claudio
Motta, Fabrizio Carini
Music
Mussato, Albertino
Nagler, A.M.
Naselli, Alberto (Zan Ganassa)
Naumachiae
Neoclassicism
Neroni, Bartolomeo
Nicoll, Allardyce
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
Olympic Academy of Vicenza (Italy)
Opera
Orbecche (Cinthio)
Orfeo (Monteverdi)
Pageant wagons
Palladio, Andrea
Paolo, Giovanni e
Parigi, Alfonso
Parigi, Giulio
Pastoral drama
Paulus (Vergerio)
Pavoni, Giuseppe
Periaktoi
Perrucci, Andrea
Peruzzi, Baldassare
Petrarch
Philander
Plautus, Titus Maccius
Poetics (Aristotle)
Pollux
Proscenium arch
Renaissance
Roman Academy
Rome
Sabbattini, Nicola
San Daniele, Pellegrino da
San Gallo, Aristotile de
Satyr plays
Scala, Flaminio
Scaliger, Julius Caesar
Scamozzi, Vincenzo
Scenery: Italy
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
Serlio, Sebastiano
Six Books of Perspective (Ubaldus)
Sofonisba (Trissino)
Somi, Leone di
Special effects
Spectacle
Stage: Italy
Strong, Roy
Tacca, Ferdinando
Tasso, Torquato
Teatro Farnese (Parma)
Teatro Novissimo (Venice)
Teatro Olimpico (Vicenza)
Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
Terence stage
Theatre architecture: Italy
Torelli, Giacomo
Tragedy: Italy
Treschel, Johannes
Trissino, Giangiorgio
Two Rules of Perspective Practice, The (Vignola)
Ubaldus, Guido
Unities
Vasari, Giorgio
Vergerio, Pier Paolo
Verisimilitude
Vignola, Giacomo Barozzi da
Virgil
Vitruvius
Wings (scenery)
Zanni

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