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1773
 
    
Oliver Goldsmith's play She Stoops to Conquer is produced in London's Covent Garden theatre       
1774
 
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Goethe's play Götz von Berlichingen, a definitive work of Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress), has its premiere in Berlin        
1775
 
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Figaro makes his first appearance on stage in Beaumarchais' The Barber of Seville       
1777
 
    
Richard Brinsley Sheridan's second play, The School for Scandal, is an immediate success in London's Drury Lane theatre       
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, by Russell, 1788
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1782
 
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Friedrich von Schiller's youthful and anarchic play The Robbers causes a sensation when performed in Mannheim       
1782
 
    
The English actress Sarah Siddons, already well known in the province, causes a sensation when she appears in London at Drury Lane       
1789
 
    
US painter and author William Dunlap has great success with his comedy The Father; or, American Shandyism       
1790
 
     
Mozart's opera Così fan Tutte has its premiere in Vienna, in the court theatre of Joseph II        
1791
 
     
Mozart's opera The Magic Flute has its premiere in Vienna in a popular theatre run by the librettist, Emanuel Shikaneder        
1794
 
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Goethe and Schiller become friends, and together create the movement known as Weimar classicism