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A

A Chorus Line (play)
A Man for All Seasons: Analysis of Setting
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Analysis of Setting
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Adapting Novels to the Stage
Aeneas at Washington by Allen Tate
African-American musical theater
Alan Bennett
Alexander Ostrovsky
American Regional Theater
Amphitheatre
Anagnorisis
Antigone by Jean Anouilh
Antitrust Rulings Force Film Studios to Divest Theaters
Antonio Buero Vallejo
Antony and Cleopatra: Analysis of Setting
As You Like It: Analysis of Setting
Asian American Drama
Augusto Boal
Autos sacramentales

B

Baker Establishes the 47 Workshop at Harvard
Bartolomé de Torres Naharro
Blood Wedding: Analysis of Setting
Boris Godunov: Analysis of Setting
Britain Establishes the Royal National Theatre
British Medieval Drama
Broadway (New York City thoroughfare)
Bronson Howard
Bunraku (traditional theater)
Bus Stop: Analysis of Setting

C

Cain: Analysis of Setting
Caroline, or Change by Tony Kushner
Caryl Churchill
Catharsis
Central and Southeastern European Drama
Charles Fuller
Chita Rivera
Christopher Logue
Classical Greek and Roman Drama
Cohan's Little Johnny Jones Premieres
Comedy

D

Dario Fo
David Mercer
David Rabe
David Williamson
Day by Lanford Wilson
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Distancing effect (alienation effect)
Doctor Faustus: Analysis of Setting
Don Giovanni (opera)
Drama
Dramatic structure
Dramaturgical Analysis

E

Ed Bullins
Edward Martyn
Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
English-Language African Drama
Eugène Brieux
Eugène Scribe

F

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fay Weldon
Federal Theatre Project Promotes Live Theater
Ferdinand Raimund
First Nickelodeon Film Theater Opens
First Performance of The Marriage of Figaro
First Theatre Royal Opens in London
Ford Foundation Begins to Fund Nonprofit Theaters
Ford’s Theatre
François Ponsard
Franz Theodor Csokor
French-Language African Drama
Fritz Hochwälder

G

Gem of the Ocean by August Wilson
Georg Kaiser
German Drama Since the 1600s
Great Dionysia
Greek Tragedian Aeschylus Dies
Greek tragedy
Guare's The House of Blue Leaves
Guilbert de Pixérécourt

H

Havel's The Garden Party Satirizes Life Under Communism
Henning Mankell
Henry Bernstein
Henry IV, Part II by William Shakespeare
Henry IV, Parts I and Henry IV, Part II by William Shakespeare
Henry Medwall
Henry V: Analysis of Setting
Henry V by William Shakespeare
Hermann Bahr

I

Indian Drama
Indians (play)
Internal monologue
Ion Luca Caragiale
Irish Drama

J

Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
James Bridie
James Burbage
James Ene Henshaw
Japanese Drama
Jean-Jacques Bernard