Theater / Stage Design -
Renaissance Stage
Perspective Effects
Footlights
restoration theatre

1660 - 1700

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Western Theatre Timeline
Play types, Movements, or Schools of Theatre -
Gothic Melodrama
Comedy of Manners
Sentimental Comedy
Heroic Tragedy
Dramatists -
William Davenant Thomas Killigrew
William Congreve George Farquhar
George Lillo John Vanbrugh
Oliver Goldsmith John Gay
Richard Brinsley Sheridan Jeremy Collier
William Wycherley
Thomas Shadwell John Dryden
Aphra Behn
Actors -
Thomas Betterton
Colley Cibber (also Dramatist)
Architects -
Christopher Wren
england
Books in Owens Library -
Cambridge companion to English Restoration theatre / edited by Deborah Payne Fisk
Restoration theatre
Companion to Restoration drama / edited by Susan J. Owen
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