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| 1934 |
| | | In Lillian Hellman's play The Children's Hour two teachers are maliciously accused of lesbianism by one of their pupils | |
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| 1935 |
| | | T.S. Eliot's play Murder in the Cathedral has its first performance in Canterbury cathedral | |
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| 1936 |
| | | García Lorca writes his play The House of Bernarda Alba in the last year of his short life | |
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| 1936 |
| | | Terence Rattigan's first play, French without Tears, is performed in London | |
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| 1938 |
| | | Thornton Wilder's play Our Town opens on Broadway | |
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| 1941 |
| | | Bertolt Brecht's play set in the Thirty Years' War, Mother Courage, has its first performance in Zurich | |
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| 1942 |
| | | Thornton Wilder's play The Skin of our Teeth has a mixed reception at its New Haven premiere | |
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| 1943 |
| | | Jean-Paul Sartre begins a new career as a dramatist with his first play, The Flies ('Les Mouches') | |
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| 1945 |
| | | US dramatist Tennessee Williams has his first success with The Glass Menagerie | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, set in a down-and-out bar of the kind he had known in his youth, is performed in New York | |
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