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| 1601 |
| | Shakespeare's central character in Hamlet expresses both the ideals of the Renaissance and the disillusion of a less confident age | |
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| 1604 |
| | William Shakespeare's name appears among the actors in a list of the King's Men | |
| | List of the King's Men in 1604, including Shakespeare National Archives, Kew
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| 1605 |
| | Ben Jonson writes The Masque of Blackness, the first of his many masques for the court of James I | |
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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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| 1616 |
| | William Shakespeare dies at New Place, his home in Stratford-upon-Avon, and is buried in Holy Trinity Church | |
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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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