Adams, J.C.
Admiral's Men (London)
Alchemist, The (Jonson)
Alleyn, Edward
Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare)
Ariosto, Lodovico
Aristotle
Armin, Robert
As You Like It (Shakespeare)
Astley, John
Audiences
Bale, John
Bearbaiting rings
Beaumont, Francis
Beeston, Christopher
Beeston's Boys
Bentley, Gerald Eades
Blackfriars Theatre (London)
Boxes (seating)
Boy's Companies
Braggart Warrior, The (Plautus)
Brayne, John
Buck, George
Burbage, James
Burbage, Richard
Cambises (Preston)
Campaspe (Lyly)
Caroline drama
Chambers, E.K.
Chapman, George
Cockpit in Drury Lane, The (London)
Cockpit-in-Court (London)
Colet, John
Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare)
Comedy: Humours
Comedy: Rome
Condell, Henry
Coriolanus (Shakespeare)
Costume: England
Court theatre
Curtain, The (London)
Curtains, stage
Dance: England
Davenant, William
De Witt, Johannes
Defence of Poesy, The (Sidney)
Defence of Poetry, Music and Stage Plays, A (Lodge)
Dekker, Thomas
Discovery space
Doctor Faustus (Marlowe)
Dramatists: England
Duchess of Malfi, The (Webster)
Earl of Leicester's Men
Edward II (Marlowe)
Endimion (Lyly)
England: 1558–1642
Evans, Henry
Every Man in His Humour (Jonson)
Farce
Farrant, Richard
Field, Nathan
Fletcher, John
Ford, John
Fortune, The (London)
Fortune, The (London)
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (Greene)
Fulgens and Lucrece (Medwall)
Game of Chess, The (Middleton)
Gammer Gurton's Needle
Gascoigne, George
Globe, The (London)
Gorboduc (Sackville and Norton)
Gosson, Stephen
Government regulation of theatre
Government regulation of theatre
Greene, Robert
Gurr, Andrew
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Harbage, Alfred
Heavens (Elizabethan theatre building)
Heminges, John
Henry IV, Part I and II (Shakespeare)
Henry V (Shakespeare)
Henry VIII (Shakespeare)
Henslowe, Philip
Herbert, Sir Henry
Heywood, John
Heywood, Thomas
Histriomastix (Prynne)
Hodges, C. Walter
Hope, The (London)
Hosley, Richard
Hue and Cry After Cupid, The
Humanism
I Suppositi (Ariosto)
Ingram, William
Inns of Court (England)
Intermezzi (Italy)
Jacobean drama
James IV (Greene)
Jones, Inigo
Jonson, Ben
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)
Kempe, William
King, T.J.
King and No King, A (Beaumont and Fletcher)
King John (Shakespeare)
King Lear (Shakespeare)
King's Men (London)
Knight of the Burning Pestle, The (Beaumont)
Kyd, Thomas
Laetus, Pomponius
Licensing (theatres, plays, entertainments)
Lily, William
Lodge, Thomas
Lord Chamberlain's Men
Love's Metamorphosis (Lyly)
Lowin, John
Lyly, John
Macbeth (Shakespeare)
Machinery, stage
Malcontent, The (Marston)
Marlowe, Christopher
Marston, John
Masque of Blackness, The (Jonson)
Masque of Hymen, The
Masque of Oberon
Masques
Massinger, Philip
Master of Revels
Measure for Measure (Shakespeare)
Medwall, Henry
Merchant of Venice, The (Shakespeare)
Merry Wives of Windsor, The (Shakespeare)
Middle Ages
Middleton, Thomas
Midsummer Night's Dream, A (Shakespeare)
Morality plays
Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare)
Music
New Way to Pay Old Debts, A (Massinger)
Newington Butts (London)
Northbrooke, John
Norton, Thomas
Orrell, John
Othello (Shakespeare)
Palladio, Andrea
Parigi, Giulio
Periaktoi
Phoenix, The (London)
Platea
Platter, Thomas
Plautus, Titus Maccius
Plays Confuted in Five Actions (Gosson)
Playwrights: methods of paying
Porter's Hall (London)
Preston, Thomas
Private theatres, Elizabethan period
Proscenium arch
Prynne, William
Public theatres: Elizabethan period
Queen's Men
Ralph Roister Doister (Udall)
Rastell, John
Red Bull, The (London)
Red Lion, The (London)
Revenge tragedy
Reynolds, George
Richard II (Shakespeare)
Richard III (Shakespeare)
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Rose, The (London)
Rowley, William
Royal Cockpit (London)
Rule a Wife and Have a Wife (Fletcher)
Sackville, Thomas
Salisbury Court Theatre (London)
Salmacida Spolia (Davenant)
Scamozzi, Vincenzo
Scenery: England
School of Abuse, The (Gosson)
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
Serlio, Sebastiano
Shakespeare, William
Sharing companies
Shirley, James
Shoemaker's Holiday, The (Dekker)
Sidney, Sir Philip
Skelton, John
Spanish Tragedy, The (Kyd)
Special effects
Spectacle
St. Paul's (London)
Stage: England
Strong, Roy
Swan, The (London)
Tamburlaine (Marlowe)
Taming of the Shrew, The (Shakespeare)
Tarleton, Richard
Taylor, Joseph
Teatro Olimpico (Vicenza)
Tempest, The (Shakespeare)
Temple of Love, The (Davenant)
Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
Terence stage
Theatre, The (London)
Theatre architecture: England
Tilney, Edmund
Tiring house
'Tis Pity She's A Whore (Ford)
Touring
Tourneur, Cyril
Treatise Against Dicing, Dancing, Plays, and Interludes (Northbrooke)
Triumph of Peace, The (Shirley)
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare)
Two Gentlemen of Verona (Shakespeare)
Udall, Nicholas
University Wits
Vignola, Giacomo Barozzi da
Volpone (Jonson)
Webb, John
Webster, John
White Devil, The (Webster)
Whitefriars
Whitlocke, Bulstrode
Wickham, Glynne
Wilkins, George
Wilson, Robert
Winter's Tale, A (Shakespeare)
Woman Killed with Kindness, A (Heywood)

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