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1830
 
    
Victor Hugo's romantic drama Hernani provokes a riot in the Paris audience on the first night       
1831
 
    
Russian poet Alexander Pushkin publishes a grand historical drama, Boris Godunov       
1836
 
     
The Inspector General, a farce by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol satirising Russian offialdom, has tsar Nicholas I in the audience for the premiere        
1875
 
     
Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt has its premiere in Oslo, with incidental music by Edvard Grieg        
1879
 
    
Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House signals a new direction in drama in its frank treatment of tensions within a marriage       
1890
 
    
Henrik Ibsen publishes his play Hedda Gabler, with its powerfully manipulative central character, a year before it is first produced (in Germany)       
1892
 
    
Oscar Wilde's comedy Lady Windermere's Fan is a great success with audiences in London's St. James Theatre       
1892
 
    
W.B. Yeats publishes a short play The Countess Cathleen, his first contribution to Irish poetic drama       
1892
 
    
Bernard Shaw's first play, Widowers' Houses, deals with the serious social problem of slum landlords       
1892
 
    
Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck publishes his play Pelléas et Mélisande