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Comedy

D

Dario Fo

David Mamet

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 Albee

Edward Martyn

Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama

English-Language African Drama

Eric Bentley

Eugène Brieux

Eugène Scribe

F

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fay Weldon

Federal Theatre Project Promotes Live Theater

Ferdinand Raimund

Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy Meets with Unexpected Success

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

Friedrich Wolf

Fritz Hochwälder

G

Gem of the Ocean by August Wilson

Georg Kaiser

German Drama Since the 1600s

Gore Vidal

Great Dionysia

Greek Tragedian Aeschylus Dies

Greek tragedy

Guare's The House of Blue Leaves

Guilbert de Pixérécourt

H

Harvey Fierstein

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