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1910
 
    
J.M. Synge's last and unfinished play, Deirdre of the Sorrows, is performed in Dublin shortly after his death       
1911
 
    
Hugo von Hofmannsthal adapts the English medieval morality play Everyman ('Jedermann') for performance in Salzburg       
1913
 
    
Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion has its first performance – in a German version in Vienna       
Mrs Patrick Campbell as Eliza Doolittle, 1914
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1921
 
     
Within a five-week period the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello writes two masterpieces, Six Characters in Search of an Author immediately followed by Henry IV        
1921
 
    
The Czech playwright Karel Capek gives the world the term 'robot', in the title of his play Rossum's Universal Robots       
1921
 
    
Eugene O'Neill's play Anna Christie is performed in New York       
1923
 
     
Sean O'Casey's first play The Shadow of a Gunman is performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin        
1923
 
    
US dramatist Elmer Rice establishes his reputation with The Adding Machine, an expressionistic drama about the machine age       
1923
 
    
Bernard Shaw's play Saint Joan has its world premiere in New York       
1924
 
     
Sean O'Casey's second play Juno and the Paycock is performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin