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| c. 1170 |
| | | The first known mystery play, the Mystery of Adam, takes place outside a church somewhere in France | |
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| c. 1250 |
| | | Tannhäuser is one of the Minnesinger, the German equivalents of the French troubadours | |
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| 1374 |
| | | Kanami and Zeami Motokiyo please the shogun with their theatrical performance, and his patronage begins the tradition of Japan's No theatre | |
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| c. 1400 |
| | | The English mystery cycles are performed by trade guilds, on carts pulled from audience to audience around the city | |
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| 1545 |
| | | The Italian players of the commedia dell'arte first feature in the records in this year | |
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| 1576 |
| | | James Burbage builds London's first theatre and calls it the Theatre | |
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| 1587 |
| | | Marlowe's first play, Tamburlaine the Great, introduces the swaggering blank verse of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama | |
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| 1592 |
| | | After tentative beginnings in the three parts of Henry VI, Shakespeare achieves his first masterpiece on stage with Richard III | |
|  | William Shakespeare, engraving by Martin Droeshout, 1623
National Portrait Gallery, London
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| 1599 |
| | | The Globe, where many of Shakespeare's plays are first performed, is built on Bankside in London | |
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| 1601 |
| | | Shakespeare's central character in Hamlet expresses both the ideals of the Renaissance and the disillusion of a less confident age | |
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