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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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| 1637 |
| | | Pierre Corneille's play Le Cid, popular with Paris audiences, hinges on the conflict between duty and love | |
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| c. 1650 |
| | | Japan's popular theatre, kabuki, develops as a form of café entertainment | |
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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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