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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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| 1604 |
| | William Shakespeare's name appears among the actors in a list of the King's Men | |
| | List of the King's Men in 1604, including Shakespeare National Archives, Kew
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| 1605 |
| | Ben Jonson writes The Masque of Blackness, the first of his many masques for the court of James I | |
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| 1606 |
| | The satirical voice of the English playwright Ben Jonson is heard to powerful effect in Volpone | |
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| c. 1611 |
| | Shakespeare's last completed play, The Tempest, is performed | |
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| 1613 |
| | The Globe catches fire during a performance of Shakespeare's last play, Henry VIII | |
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| 1616 |
| | William Shakespeare dies at New Place, his home in Stratford-upon-Avon, and is buried in Holy Trinity Church | |
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| 1618 |
| | The Teatro Farnese in Parma is the first to have a proscenium arch, framing perspective scenery painted on flat wings | |
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| 1634 |
| | A Passion play is performed for the first time at Oberammergau, in the spirit of the Counter-Reformation | |
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