Abington, Frances
Actors, acting, and Acting Companies: England
Addison, Joseph
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All for Love (Dryden)
Andria (Terence)
Androboros (Hunter)
Andromaque (Racine)
Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare)
Argand lamp
Aston, Anthony
Auditoriums
Ballad opera
Barry, Elizabeth
Barry, Spranger
Beaumont, Francis
Beaux' Stratagem, The (Farquhar)
Beeston, William
Beggar's Opera, The (Gay)
Behn, Mrs. Aphra
Bellamy, George Ann
Benefit system
Betterton, Thomas
Bickerstaffe, Isaac
Booth, Barton
Boquet, Louis-René
Borders (scenery)
Boucher, François
Box, pit
Boxes (seating)
Boyle, Roger (Earl of Orrery)
Bracegirdle, Anne
Brackenridge, Hugh Henry
Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of
Burlesque
Canada
Cato (Addison)
Censorship
Centlivre, Susanna
Chamberlain, Lord
Chariot-and-pole (scene shifting)
Chetwood, William
Christmas Tale, A
Cibber, Colley
Cibber, Susanna
Cid, Le Controversy
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista
Clive, Kitty
Cockpit Theatre, The (London)
Collier, Jeremy
Colman, George the Elder
Colman, George the Younger
Comedy: Humours
Comedy: Manners
Comic opera
Commedia dell'arte: England
Computers
Congreve, William
Conquest of Granada, The (Dryden)
Conscious Lovers, The (Steele)
Copyright
Corneille, Pierre
Costume: England
Country Wife, The (Wycherley)
Covent Garden (London)
Cross, Richard
Cumberland, Richard
Dall, Nicholas Thomas
Dance: England
Davenant, William
DeLoutherbourg, Philippe Jacques
Designers
DeVoto, John
Doggett, Thomas
Domestic tragedy
Dorset Garden Theatre (London)
Douglass, David
Downes, John
Dramatists: England
Dress and Habits of the Peoples of England, The (Strutt)
Drolls
Drury Lane Theatre (London)
Dryden, John
Duenna, The (Sheridan)
Duke's Company
Empress of Morocco, The (Settle)
England: 1642–1800
Entr'acte entertainment
Etherege, Sir George
False Delicacy (Kelly)
Farce
Farquhar, George
Farren, Elizabeth
Fielding, Henry
Fletcher, John
Foote, Samuel
Fortune, The (London)
Fuller, Isaac
Galleries
Gamester, The (Moore)
Garrick, David
Gay, John
Giffard, Henry
Globe, The (London)
Godfrey, Thomas
Goldsmith, Oliver
Good Natur'd Man, The (Goldsmith)
Goodman's Fields Theatre (London)
Government regulation of theatre
Grooves (stage)
Gwynn, Nell
Habit à la romaine
Hallam, Lewis
Hallam, William
Hallam family
Handel, George Frideric
Harlequin a Sorcerer (Rich)
Harlequin Executed (Rich)
Harris, Henry
Harris, Thomas
Hart, Charles
Hayman, Francis
Haymarket Theatre (London)
Henderson, John
Henry VIII (Shakespeare)
Herbert, Sir Henry
Holcroft, Thomas
Hunter, Richard
Hunter, Robert
Jackson, John
Jamaica
Jealous Wife, The (Colman)
John Street Theatre (New York)
Jolly, George
Jones, Inigo
Jonson, Ben
Kean, Thomas
Kelly, Hugh
Kemble, John Philip
Killigrew, Thomas
King, Thomas
King Lear (Shakespeare)
King's Company (London)
King's Men (London)
King's Theatre (London)
Kynaston, Edward
Lacy, James
Lacy, John
Lambert, George
Leacock, John
Lee, Nathaniel
Lescarbot, March
Levingston, William
Licensing (theatres, plays
Licensing Act of 1737 (England)
Lighting
Lillo, George
Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre (London)
Lines of business
London Merchant, The (Lillo)
Love à la Mode (Macklin)
Love for Love (Congreve)
Love's Last Shift (Cibber)
Macbeth (Shakespeare)
Machinery, stage
Macklin, Charles
Maid of the Mill, The (Bickerstaffe)
Man of Mode, The (Etherege)
Man of the World, The (Macklin)
Management, theatre
Manley, Delariviere
Marriage à la Mode (Dryden)
Masques
Master of Revels
Master of Revels
Melodrama
Midsummer Night's Dream, A (Shakespeare)
Mohun, Michael
Moody, John
Moore, Edward
Munford, Robert
Murray, Walter
Music
Myths
Neoclassicism
New Wells Theatre (London)
Ogilby, John
O'Keeffe, John
Oldfield, Anne
Omai, or A Trip Around the World
Opera
Opéra (Paris)
Opera: ballad
Opera: comic
Orphan, The (Otway)
Otway, Thomas
Pantomime
Patents (England)
Philips, Ambrose
Phoenix, The (London)
Pit (Parterre)
Pix, Mary
Plain Dealer, The (Wycherley)
Playwrights: methods of paying
Potter, John
Prince of Parthia, The (Godfrey)
Pritchard, Hannah
Prompters
Proscenium arch
Puritan opposition to theatre
Queen's Theatre (London)
Quin, James
Racine, Jean
Ravenscroft, Edward
Realism
Recruiting Officer, The (Farquhar)
Red Bull, The (London)
Rehearsal, The (George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham)
Rehearsal, The (George Villiers
Repertory system
Rhodes, John
Rich, Christopher
Rich, John
Richard III (Shakespeare)
Richards, John Inigo
Rival Queens, The (Lee)
Rivals, The (Sheridan)
Road to Ruin, The (Holcroft)
Robinson, Robert
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Rowe, Nicholas
Royal Academy of Music (London)
Ryan, Lacy
Salisbury Court Theatre (London)
Scene painting
Scene shifting
Scenery: England
School for Scandal, The (Sheridan)
Sentimental comedy
Servandoni, Jean-Nicolas
Settle, Elkanah
Shadwell, Thomas
Shakespeare, William
Sharing companies
She Stoops to Conquer (Goldsmith)
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
Sheridan, Thomas
Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, A (Collier)
Shuter, Edward
Shutters (scenery)
Siege of Rhodes, The
Skipworth, Sir Thomas
Smith, William
Smock Alley Theatre (Dublin)
Southwark Theatre (Philadelphia)
Spectacle
Stage: England
Stagg, Charles and Mary
Steele, Sir Richard
Streeter, Robert
Strutt, Joseph
Tamerlane (Rowe)
Tartuffe (Molière)
Tate, Nahum
Tempest, The (Shakespeare)
Tennis court theatres
Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
Theatre architecture: England
Theatres Royal (England)
Thornhill, James
Tom Thumb (Fielding)
Towers, Samuel
Tragedy of Jane Shore, The (Rowe)
Tragedy: domestic (England)
Tragedy: heroic
Traps (stage)
Trotter, Catharine
Underhill, Cave
United States: colonial
Venice Preserv'd (Otway)
Vigarani, Gaspare
Warren, Mercy Otis
Way of the World, The (Congreve)
Weaver, John
Webb, John
Wesley, John
West Indian, The (Cumberland)
Whitefield, Charles
Wilks, Robert
Wings (scenery)
Woffington, Peg
Wonders of Derbyshire, The
Woodward, Harry
Wren, Christopher
Wycherley, William
Yates, Mary Ann
Yates, Richard

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