Charles I

Puritan Interregnum
Oliver Cromwell
English Restoration
Charles II
Italianate stage
in medias res
mise en scne
Aristotle (3rd century BCE)
Poetics (c. 330 BCE)
Horace (1st century BCE)
Ars Poetica (c. 10 BCE)
Enlightenment
patent houses
Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Theatre at Lincoln Inn's Fields
onstage seating
minstrel gallery
Covent Garden
orchestra pit
candlelight
oil light
illegitimate houses
Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket
Goodman's Fields
Thomas Betterton
David Garrick
contrapposto
Charles Macklin ("the Jew / That Shakespeare drew")
Philip de Loutherbourg
Jeremy Collier
A Short View of Immorality and Profaneness of the English
Stage . . . (1698)
William Congreve
The Way of the World (1700)
Robert Walpole (first British Prime Minister)
George Frideric Handel
dramma per musica (opera)
pastoral
Scriblerus Club
Jonathan Swift
John Gay
Comdie Franaise
Opra (theater company)
Comdie Italienne
Luigi Riccoboni

commedia dell'arte
Madame Clairon
panniers
Voltaire
The Orphan of China (1755)
Denis Diderot
"The Paradox of the Actor" (17738)
dual-awareness
dramaturgy
Sarah Siddons
stock company
John Gay
Johann Christoph Pepusch
ballad opera
folk song
air (from Italian aria)
contrafactum (plural contrafacta)
The Beggar's Opera (1728)
Lavinia Fenton
John Hippisley
Flora, or Hob in the Well (1729)
Polly (1729)
George Lillo
The London Merchant, or The History of George
Barnwell (1731)
middle-class tragedy
sentimental comedy
Henry Fielding (member of the Scriblerus Club)
The Golden Rump (1737)
Licensing Act of 1737
Examiner of Plays
William Hallam
wells ("drinking theater")
rope-dancing
Lewis Hallam
London Company of Comedians / American Company / Old
American Company
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The School for Scandal (1777)
Pierre de Beaumarchais
The Barber of Seville (1775)
The Marriage of Figaro (1784)

summer fairs (England)

Bartholomew Fair
fairground theaters (France)
Pietro Metastasio
Carlo Goldoni
The Servant of Two Masters (1745/53)
Carlo Gozzi
fiabe ("fables")
For the Love of Three Oranges (1761)
Galli-Bibiena family
scena per angolo
multipoint perspective
Drottingholm Court Theater (built 1766)
Catherine the Great
Charters of 1762 and 1785
serf theaters
Joseph Anton Stranitzky
Hanswurst (Jack-Sausage)
Haupt- und Staatsaktion(en) ("chief and state plays)
Johann Christoph Gottsched
Caroline Neuber
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German National Theater (Hamburg, 1767)
Hamburg Dramaturgy (176769)
Minna von Barnhelm (1767)
Nathan the Wise (1779)
Sturm und Drang ("storm and stress")
Friedrich Maximilian Klinger
Sturm und Drang (play, 1777)
Friedrich Schiller
The Robbers (1781)
Gustav III of Sweden
Weimar Classicism
Weimar Court Theater
classicism
unity of time
unity of place
unity of action
purity of genre
verisimilitude (vraisemblance)
decorum (biensance)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Goetz von Berlichingen (Sturm und Drang, 1773)
Iphigenia at Tauris (Weimar Classicism, 1779)
Faust I (Romanticism[?], 1808)
August von Kotzebue (melodramatist)
Shakespearomanie ("Shakespearemania")
romance (genre)
A.W. Schlegel
Romanticism
Friedrich Schlegel
ontology
paradox of humanity
romantic irony
sublime
Romantic fragments
Ludwig Tieck
Puss in Boots (1797)
fairy tales
satire
play-within-a-play
the gothic
Heinrich von Kleist
The Prince of Homburg (1811)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Magic Flute (1791)
gaslight
Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, installed 1816)
limelight
carbon arc
gloire
elite entertainments v. popular entertainments
melodrama (melos + drama)
poetic justice
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Pygmalion (1762, perf. 1770)
thtre de la foire (fairground theater)
Boulevard du Temple
"boulevard theaters"
Ren Charles Guilbert de Pixrcourt
The Dog of Montargis, or The Forest of Bondy (1814)
Dragon the dog

Victor Hugo
grotesque
French Romanticism (v. German Romanticism)
Cromwell (1827)
Preface to Cromwell (1827)
Hernani (1830)
Flix Rachel
Edmund Kean
acting manuals
Park Theatre (New York)
Astor Place Riot (May 10, 1849)
Edwin Forrest
Metamora, or The Last of the Wampanoags (John Augustus
Stone, 1829)
The Gladiator (Robert Montgomery Bird, 1831)
William Charles Macready
Southwark Theatre (Philadelphia)
The Disappointment, or The Force of Credulity (Andrew Barton,
1767)
May Day in Town, or New York in an Uproar (Royall Tyler, 1787)
William Dunlap and Benjamin Carr
The Archers, or Mountaineers of Switzerland (1796)
"Why, Huntress, Why?"
musical city plays
Adelphi Theatre (London)
William T. Moncrief
Tom and Jerry, or Life in London (1821)
Bob Logic
Benjamin A. Baker
A Glance at New York in 1848 (1848)
Mose, the Bowery B'hoy
fairy plays
minor theaters (London)
"minor drama"
Lurline (a.k.a. The Naiad Queen, 1834)
Amazon march
Charlotte Cushman
Niblo's Garden Theatre
pleasure garden
The Black Crook (1866)
"You Naughty, Naughty Men"

Kiralfy Brothers
historiography
William Wheatley
American Academy of Music
tableau(x)
transformation scene
hurries
George II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Saxe-Meininger Troupe
Ludwig Chronegk
James Robison Planch
antiquarianism
production of King John (Covent Garden 1823)
The Island of Jewels (1849)
variety
music hall
chairman
beer halls / concert saloons
vaudeville
Tony Pastor (opened Union Square theater 1881)
American minstrelsy / minstrel show
Thomas Dartmouth ("Daddy") Rice
"Jump, Jim Crow" (1828)
Jim Crow
blackface performance
minstrel line
endmen: Mr. Tambo and Mr. Bones
Mr. Interlocutor
"first part"
cakewalk / walkaround
olio
stump speech
minstrel wench
afterpiece
Stephen Foster
(George) Christy's Minstrels
The Black Crook Burlesque (1867)
burlesque
parody of well-known narrative
chock full of frequently awful puns
well-stocked with political incorrectness
Bowery Theatre (New York, built 1826)
Wood's Minstrel Hall (New York, established 1862)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
George Aiken (adapted in 1852)

mixed bill
single bill
realism
realistic dramaturgy v. realistic production
Madame Elizabeth Lucia Vestris
Olympic Theatre (London)
box set (introduced c. 1832)
cup-and-saucer realism
Henrik Ibsen
A Doll's House (1879)
"door slam heard 'round the world"
An Enemy of the People (1882)
Hedda Gabler (1890/1)
Elizabeth Robins
electric light
Savoy Theatre (London, lit with electric light 1881)
W.S. Gilbert (composer) and Arthur Sullivan (librettist)
H.M.S. Pinafore, or The Lass That Loved a Sailor (1878)
The Pirates of Penzance, or The Slave of Duty (1879)
The Mikado, or The Town of Titipu (1885)
Ibsen's dramatic poems
closet drama
Peer Gynt (Ibsen, pub. 1867)
Ludvig Holberg
naturalism
mile Zola
Preface to Thrse Raquin (1873)
Andr Antoine
Thtre Libre ("Free Theatre," Paris, founded 1887)
"Theatre of Antoine's Back"
"slice of life"
independent theater movement
Otto Brahm
Freie Bhne ("Free Stage," Berlin, founded 1889)
J.T. Grein
Independent Theatre (London, founded 1891)
George Bernard Shaw
(realist) problem play
Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893)
Pygmalion (1912)
Konstantin Stanislavski
Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko

Moscow Art Theater (MAT) (Moscow, realized 1898)

William Gillette
Sherlock Holmes melodrama (1899)
"illusion of the first time"
Stanislavki system
magic if
motivation
objectives and bits ("beats")
An Actor Prepares (1936)
ethos (from Aristotle's Poetics)
illusionism
Gerhardt Hauptmann
The Weavers (1892)
August Strindberg
The Father (1887)
Miss Julie (1888)
Preface to Miss Julie
side-lighting
Pelleas and Melisande opera
(libretto by Maurice Maeterlinck, music by Claude Debussy, 1902)
Richard Wagner
Ring Cycle (Der Ring des Nibelungen, 1787)
Das Rheingold (premiered 1869)
rainbow bridge
Bayreuth Festspielhaus (Bayreuth, Germany, 1787)
mystic chasm (orchestra pit)
mist curtain
house lights (darkened auditorium)
symbolism
objectivity v. subjectivity
historical avant-garde / classical avant-garde
primitivism
Alfred Jarry
Ubu Roi (December 10, 1896)
"The Song of the Disembraining"
'pataphysics ( pataphysics!)
Theatre de l'Oeuvre
Edward Gordon Craig
Ellen Terry
Henry Irving
bermarionette
post-human
the New Stagecraft

synesthesia (Alexander Scriabin)

color-organ
Adolphe Appia
"rhythmic spaces"
Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work of art," Richard Wagner)
The Lady from the Sea (Ibsen, 1888)
When We Dead Awaken (Ibsen, 1899)
celestographs
Inferno autobiography (Strindberg, c. 1898)
A Dream Play (Strindberg, 1901)
Ghost Sonata (Strindberg, 1904)
Intimate Theater (estab. 1907)
Oscar Wilde
Salome (1891)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
aestheticism ("art for art's sake")
W.B. Yeats
At the Hawk's Well (1916)
Stphane Mallarm
"theater of the mind"
Aurlien Lugn-Po
Edgar Allan Poe
gauze curtain
Maurice Maeterlinck
The Intruder (1890/1)
The Blind (1890/1)
Susan Glaspell
Trifles (1916)
style (defined as substitution)
symbolic v. symbolist
Maly (estab. 1806, moved 1824)
Bolshoi (estab. 1825)
Nikolai Gogol
The Government Inspector (1836)
Ivan Turgenev
A Month in the Country (1850, perf. 1872)
Alexander Ostrovsky
Leo Tolstoy
The Power of Darkness (1866, perf. 1895)
Maxim Gorky
The Lower Depths (1902)
Tsar Alexander II (emancipated serfs in 1861)

Anton Chekhov
The Seagull (1895, perf. 1897)
Uncle Vanya (1899)
Three Sisters (1901)
The Cherry Orchard (1903/4)
Olga Knipper
dramatic/dramatugical mode