Contrasts between Elizabethan and restoration drama
¿The dramatic interregnum, 1642-1660
The beginnings of restoration drama and opera
Dryden, and the heroic drama
Etherege and Wycherley (Shadwell)
¿Aspects of minor restoration drama
Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar
¿Some aspects of Queen Anne drama
¿Pantomime and ballad drama
Voltaire's influence and bourgeois tragedy
Fielding and the licensing act
¿The lighter drama of the Garrick era
The rise and height of sentimental drama
Goldsmith and the reaction in comedy
Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
