The Dramatic Club was founded in 1871 by and for students interested in dramatic entertainment and performance. The club would meet to read plays and occasionally perform them for the campus. The club was not open to everyone, and the members were “limited.” The club originally intended to utilize the old Parthenon Hall to practice.

The Shakespeare Club was another dramatics club formed around the same time, and the two quickly became rivals.

The Dramatic Combination was another drama performance group formed in the late 19th century. Featured in the Trinity Ivy in 1886, the group was made up of 33 students and put on plays including Ruy Blas, Don Caasar de Bazan, Michael Strogoff, and The Gladiator.

The Dramatic Society existed at least as far back as 1871 and is referenced in the Trinity Ivy as recently as 1986. It existed primarily to put on plays for the benefit of students, faculty, or alumni.

The Shakespeare Club was formed in 1872 as an alternative drama performance group to the Dramatic Club, formed the year before. Some students were “not content” with the readings of Shakespeare done in the Dramatic Club, so they formed their own group to focus on critical readings of Shakespeare's work.

The Trinity College Dramatic Association was a drama performance group started in the 1870s. The group changed their name to the Trinity College Jesters in 1908, a previously established dramatic club.

As the T.C.D.A, the association put on around 3 plays each year and held meetings to elect officers and edit the group's constitution that was drawn up by the members in 1913. This constitution included articles that dictated what powers the stage manager held, how the group utilized props and costumes, how expenditures for performances were filed, and their policy on complimentary tickets to performances.

Some plays performed by the association included A Thrice Told Tale and A Pretty Piece of Business.

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