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| c. 1740 |
| | | Italian dramatist Carlo Goldoni makes a success of plays in the ancient commedia dell'arte tradition | |
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| 1773 |
| | | Oliver Goldsmith's play She Stoops to Conquer is produced in London's Covent Garden theatre | |
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| 1774 |
| | | Goethe's play Götz von Berlichingen, a definitive work of Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress), has its premiere in Berlin | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Figaro makes his first appearance on stage in Beaumarchais' The Barber of Seville | |
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| 1777 |
| | | Richard Brinsley Sheridan's second play, The School for Scandal, is an immediate success in London's Drury Lane theatre | |
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| 1782 |
| | | Friedrich von Schiller's youthful and anarchic play The Robbers causes a sensation when performed in Mannheim | |
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| 1789 |
| | | US painter and author William Dunlap has great success with his comedy The Father; or, American Shandyism | |
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| 1794 |
| | | Goethe and Schiller become friends, and together create the movement known as Weimar classicism | |
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| 1830 |
| | | Victor Hugo's romantic drama Hernani provokes a riot in the Paris audience on the first night | |
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| 1831 |
| | | Russian poet Alexander Pushkin publishes a grand historical drama, Boris Godunov | |
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