The Restoration and Eighteeth Centrury Drama
Webproject
This is the home of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century Drama
Project - a group effort of the students in English 132 to
gather and present information about theatrical performances during this
period: the actors, playwrights, theatres, audiences, critical
reactions, and cultural contexts.
We will begin posting information on the following topics at the end of
January 2001. Please check back often.
A map of London.
A timeline .
Please start here.
Theaters and
Managers
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
Dorset Garden
Thomas Killigrew
William
D'Avenant
John and
Christopher Rich
Costumes
Set Design
Restoration Acting
Style
Music
Women on the
Stage
Restoration
Audiences
Actors and
Actresses
Thomas Betterton
Elizabeth Barry
David Garrick
Colly Cibber
Ann Bracegirdle
Nell Gwynn
Charlotte Charke
Samuel Foote
Sarah Siddons
Anne Oldfield
Charles
Macklin
Elizabeth
Inchbald
Playwrights
Aphra Behn
John Dryden
Thomas
Southerne
Thomas Otway
George Villiers
William Congreve
William
Wycherly
George Farquhar
Mary Pix
Susannah
Centlivre
Henry Fielding
Joseph Addison
Richard Steele
John Gay
George Lillo
Oliver
Goldsmith
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Hannah Cowley
Genres
Heroic Drama
Tragedy
Comedy of
Manners
Sentimental
Comedy
Ballad Opera
Afterpieces
London Life
Coffee and Chocolate
Houses
Map of the City
The South Sea
Bubble
Crime and
Punishment
Inns and Lodgings
Vauxhall and Ranleagh
Gardens
Criticism
Jeremy Collier
Thomas Rymer
Samuel Pepys
Joseph Addison and
Richard Steele
Covent Garden Journal
Alexander Pope
Elizabeth
Inchbald
Samuel
Johnson
Legislation affecting
drama
1737 Act Regulating
Theatres