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| 1623 |
| | John Heminge and Henry Condell publish thirty-six Shakespeare plays in the First Folio | |
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| 1629 |
| | The sculptor and architect Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini is given the task of adding the drama of baroque to the newly completed St Peter's in Rome | |
| | Bernini's Baldacchino in St Peter's Fotofile CG
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| 1637 |
| | Pierre Corneille's play Le Cid, popular with Paris audiences, hinges on the conflict between duty and love | |
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| 1667 |
| | French dramatist Jean Racine's first great success, Andromaque, finds tragic drama in a quadrangle of love | |
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| 1673 |
| | Molière falls fatally ill when acting in his own play Le Malade Imaginaire | |
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| c. 1740 |
| | Italian dramatist Carlo Goldoni makes a success of plays in the ancient commedia dell'arte tradition | |
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| 1773 |
| | Oliver Goldsmith's play She Stoops to Conquer is produced in London's Covent Garden theatre | |
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| 1774 |
| | Goethe's play Götz von Berlichingen, a definitive work of Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress), has its premiere in Berlin | |
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| 1775 |
| | Figaro makes his first appearance on stage in Beaumarchais' The Barber of Seville | |
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| 1777 |
| | Richard Brinsley Sheridan's second play, The School for Scandal, is an immediate success in London's Drury Lane theatre | |
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