| act | action | allegory | alliteration | ambiguity | anachronism | anagnorisis | antagonist | anticlimax | anti-masque | antimetabole | apron stage | Aristotelian drama | Aristotle | aside | Augustan age |

| bard | bathos | bawdy | bearbaiting | beat | blank verse | bombast | boys' companies | burlesque |

| caricature | Catharsis | characterisation | chiasmus | children's company | Chorus | chronicle plays | citizen comedy | clench | cliché | climax | closure | comedy | comic relief | commonplace book | conceit | concordance | conflict | contrast | conundrum | convention | couplet | cradle books | crisis |

| dénouement | desenlace | dirge | double entendre | dramatic irony | dramatic monologue | dramatis personae | dumb show |

| elegy | eponymous | elements | emblem | end stopping | enjambement | epic simile | epigram | epistle | epitaph | eulogy | euphemism | euphony | euphuism | exemplum | eye rhyme |

| fable | falling action | Faust theme | farce | feminine ending | feminine rhyme | feminism | flat and round characters | Folio | four meanings |

| Gunpowder Plot | genre | Globe Theatre | great chain of being | Greek tragedy | Grobianism |

| hamartia | harangue | hero and heroine | hiatus | hilarody | historicism | hornbook | hubris | humanism | humours | hyperbole | hyphaeresis | hypocorism | hyporchema | hypostatization | hypotaxis | hypotyposis | hysteron proteron |

| iamb | iambic pentameter | idem | idiolect | imagery | incantation | incunabula | induction | innuendo | intention | interlude | irony |

| Machiavellian | malcontent | masculine rhyme | masque | maxim | meaning | Mermaid Tavern | metaphor | Metaphysical | metastasis | mime | mimesis | Miracle / Mistery Plays | Misrule, Lord of | monody | monologue | Morality Plays | motion | muse | myth |

| oleaginous | onomatopoeia | opéra-comique | oxymoron |

| pageant | paradox | parody | pathos | pattern | pensée | pentameter | peripeteia | persona/personae | personification | philology | plaint | planh | play | plot | poetic justice | précis | prose | protagonist | pun |

| Quarto |

| Renaissance | Revels, Master of the | revenge hero | revenge tragedy | rhetoric |

| satire | scene | scene changes | Senecan tragedy | sententia | setting | simile | slapstick | soliloquy | solipsism | sonnet | sophism | speech, divisions of | spondee | spoonerism | stage directions | stanza | style | sub-plot | syllepsis | symbol |

| theatres, war of the | theme | tone | tragedy | tragedy of blood | tragic flaw | tragicomedy | trope | Tudor period | turning point |

| Unities | Unity | university wits | ut pictura poesis |

| zeugma |