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Beaumont and Fletcher - English
URL: http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc97.html

When the first collected folio of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, containing a masque and some thirty-four plays, none of the latter having previously been printed, was published in 1647, long after the deaths of its authors, no attempt was made to discriminate between the parts of the famous collaborators; nor did the 1679 folio, in spite of its eighteen additional plays, suggest that a separation was desirable or feasible.

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Restoration Drama - English
URL: http://www.theatrehistory.com/british/restoration_drama_001.html

FROM 1642 onward for eighteen years, the theaters of England remained nominally closed. There was of course evasion of the law; but whatever performances were offered had to be given in secrecy, before small companies in private houses, or in taverns located three or four miles out of town. No actor or spectator was safe, especially during the early days of the Puritan rule. Least of all was there any inspiration for dramatists.

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Origin of the Opera - English
URL: http://www.theatrehistory.com/italian/opera.html

An analysis of the artistic atmosphere in seventeenth century Italy which lead to the development of opera.

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National Drama: Spain to 1700 - English
URL: http://www.theatrehistory.com/spanish/bellinger001.html

An overview of Spanish drama, from its beginnings to the end of the seventeenth century.

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John Day - English
URL: http://www.theatredatabase.com/17th_century/john_day_001.html

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A biography of the English dramatist.

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Beaumont and Fletcher - English
URL: http://www.theatredatabase.com/17th_century/beaumont_and_fletcher_001.html

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A biography of Elizabethan dramatists and collaborators Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher.

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