• Introduction to Greek Stagecraft
• The Origins of the Theatre, the First Form of Public Amusement
• The Greek Theatre and Three Athenian Tragedians: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
• Greek and Roman Comedy (read the information on Greek comedy)
• Greek Tragedy
• Greek Comedy
• Dr. J's Illustrated Greek Drama
• Greek Drama
• Ancient Theaters
• Ancient Dramatists (click on the authors' names)
• Comic Costumes
• Tragic Costumes
• Greek Theatre Index (links to more Websites)
• Choric Figures in Shakespeare's Works
• New Comedy
• Theatre and Drama in Ancient Greece

Roman Drama

• Roman Theater and Drama
• Introduction to Roman Stagecraft
• What the Roman Play was Like
• Greek and Roman Comedy (read the information on Roman comedy)
• The Ignoble Position of Roman Actors
• Roman Drama
• Timeline of the Golden Age of Roman Drama
• Classical Roman Comedy
• Roman Plays
• Roman Theatre Index (links to more Websites)
• Roman Drama
• Roman and Byzantine Theatre and Drama

Miracle & Mystery Plays and Play Cycles

• Miracle Play (definition)
• Miracle Plays and Mysteries (from the Catholic Encyclopedia)
• The Mystery Plays
• The Mystery Cycles
• Medieval Drama
• The Audience and its Expectations
• Middle English Play Cycles
• Notes on Medieval Drama (scroll down to the sections on Mysteries and Cycles)
• Medieval Church Plays
• Authorship of the English Cycles
• Dramatic Development of the English Cycles
• Mysteries and Pageants in England
• Mystery (Cycle) Plays - online slide-show; read slides 11-14
• Mystery Plays
• Medieval Theater (scroll down to sections on Medieval Drama Outside the Church, Medieval Staging)
• Miracle And Mystery Plays
• What's the Mystery?: Medieval Miracle Plays
• European Theatre and Drama in the Middle Ages

Morality Plays

• The Morality Plays
• Vice and Virtue
• Moralities, Interludes and Farces of the Middle Ages
• Everyman (a synopsis of the best-known of the morality plays of the Middle Ages)
• The Staging of a Morality Play
• Medieval Drama
• Morality Play
• Morality Plays, Interludes, and the Emergence of Mature Drama

Interludes and Farces

• Moralities, Interludes and Farces of the Middle Ages
• The Interlude Interludes
• John Heywood (16th century author of interludes)
• Interludes
  
• Drama literary terms
• Farce
• The Drama Teacher: Farce
• Farce and Violence

Commedia dell' Arte

• The Renaissance and Neoclassicism in Italy
• The Commedia dell' Arte
• Thumbnail History of Commedia dell' Arte
• Commedia Info
• Commedie dell' Arte - Italian Comedy
• Judith Chaffee’s Commedia website
• Folger Theatre celebrates Commedia dell’Arte Day

Masques

• Court Comedies and Masques
• The Court Masque
• The Masque
• Early Masques
• From Dance to Drama
• Elaborate Staging
• The Antimasque
• Stage Designs by Inigo Jones
• Costumes in the Masque
• History of the Masque Genre
• Examples of Masque Costumes

Elizabethan Drama

• Elizabethan Theater
• Elizabethan Playhouses, Actors, and Audiences
• The Public Theater
• Renaissance Art & Architecture (see section on London theaters)
• Shakespeare's Stage
• The Parts of the Stage
• Shakespeare;s Audiences
• Costumes and Sets in Shakespeare's Theater
• Ben Jonson

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