Cambridge illustrated history of British theatre/
Simon Trussler
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
- xii, 404 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
- (Cambridge illustrated history) .
Roman Britain and the Early Middle Ages 44-950 -- The High Middle Ages 950-1300 -- The Later Middle Ages 1300-1485 -- The Shaping of a Professional Theatre 1485-1572 -- The Era of the Outdoor Playhouses 1572-1603 -- The Jacobean Theatre 1603-1625 -- The Caroline and Commonwealth Theatre 1625-1660 -- The Restoration Theatre 1660-1682 -- The Birth of a Bourgeois Theatre 1682-1707 -- The Actors Ascendant 1707-1728 -- Opposition and Oppression 1728-1741 -- The Garrick Years 1741-1776 -- From Manners to Melodrama 1776-1814 -- The End of the Monopoly 1814-1843 -- Towards a Respectable Theatre 1843-1871 -- The Speculative Theatre 1871-1891 -- Romance and Realism 1891-1914 -- The War and the Long Weekend 1914-1939 -- The Utility Theatre 1939-1956 -- Anger and Affluence 1956-1968 -- Alternative Theatres 1968-1979 -- Theatre and the Marketplace 1979-1990.