<P> The performance of plays remained banned for most of the next eighteen years, becoming allowed again after the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 . The theatres started again performing many of the plays of the previous era, though often in adapted forms; new genres of Restoration comedy and spectacle soon evolved, giving English theatre of the later seventeenth century its distinctive character . </P> <Ul> <Li> William Alabaster </Li> <Li> William Alley </Li> <Li> Robert Armin </Li> <Li> Thomas Ashton </Li> <Li> William Barksted </Li> <Li> Barnabe Barnes </Li> <Li> Lording Barry </Li> <Li> Francis Beaumont </Li> <Li> Sir William Berkeley </Li> <Li> Samuel Brandon </Li> <Li> Richard Brome </Li> <Li> Lodowick Carlell </Li> <Li> William Cartwright </Li> <Li> William Cavendish </Li> <Li> Robert Chamberlain </Li> <Li> George Chapman </Li> <Li> Henry Chettle </Li> <Li> John Clavell </Li> <Li> Robert Daborne </Li> <Li> Samuel Daniel </Li> <Li> William Davenant </Li> <Li> Robert Davenport </Li> <Li> John Day </Li> <Li> Edward de Vere </Li> <Li> Thomas Dekker </Li> <Li> Michael Drayton </Li> <Li> Richard Edwardes </Li> <Li> Nathan Field </Li> <Li> John Fletcher </Li> <Li> John Ford </Li> <Li> Abraham Fraunce </Li> <Li> Ulpian Fulwell </Li> <Li> William Gager </Li> <Li> George Gascoigne </Li> <Li> Henry Glapthorne </Li> <Li> Thomas Goffe </Li> <Li> Arthur Golding </Li> <Li> Alexander Gough </Li> <Li> Robert Greene </Li> <Li> Thomas Greene </Li> <Li> Richard Gunnell </Li> <Li> Stephen Hammerton </Li> <Li> Charles Hart </Li> <Li> Richard Hathwaye </Li> <Li> William Haughton </Li> <Li> John Heminges </Li> <Li> Thomas Heywood </Li> <Li> John Honyman </Li> <Li> Thomas Hughes </Li> <Li> Ben Jonson </Li> <Li> Will Kempe </Li> <Li> Henry Killigrew </Li> <Li> Thomas Killigrew </Li> <Li> Thomas Kyd </Li> <Li> Thomas Legge </Li> <Li> Thomas Lodge </Li> <Li> John Lowin </Li> <Li> Thomas Lupton </Li> <Li> John Lyly </Li> <Li> Gervase Markham </Li> <Li> Christopher Marlowe </Li> <Li> Shackerley Marmion </Li> <Li> John Marston </Li> <Li> Philip Massinger </Li> <Li> Thomas May </Li> <Li> Thomas Middleton </Li> <Li> Anthony Munday </Li> <Li> Thomas Nabbes </Li> <Li> Thomas Nashe </Li> <Li> Thomas Norton </Li> <Li> William Ostler </Li> <Li> George Peele </Li> <Li> Andrew Pennycuicke </Li> <Li> William Percy </Li> <Li> Augustine Phillips </Li> <Li> John Pickering </Li> <Li> Thomas Pollard </Li> <Li> Henry Porter </Li> <Li> Thomas Preston </Li> <Li> William Rankins </Li> <Li> Timothy Read </Li> <Li> Samuel Rowley </Li> <Li> William Rowley </Li> <Li> Joseph Rutter </Li> <Li> Thomas Sackville </Li> <Li> William Sampson </Li> <Li> William Shakespeare </Li> <Li> Edward Sharpham </Li> <Li> James Shirley </Li> <Li> Mary Sidney </Li> <Li> Philip Sidney </Li> <Li> Wentworth Smith </Li> <Li> Sir John Suckling </Li> <Li> Robert Tailor </Li> <Li> Thomas Tomkis </Li> <Li> Cyril Tourneur </Li> <Li> John Webster </Li> <Li> George Whetstone </Li> <Li> George Wilkins </Li> <Li> Arthur Wilson </Li> <Li> Robert Wilson </Li> </Ul> <Li> Sir William Berkeley </Li> <Li> Edward de Vere </Li>

A typical elizabethan playhouse was which type of performance space