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| 1875 |
| | | Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt has its premiere in Oslo, with incidental music by Edvard Grieg | |
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| 1879 |
| | | Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House signals a new direction in drama in its frank treatment of tensions within a marriage | |
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| 1890 |
| | | Henrik Ibsen publishes his play Hedda Gabler, with its powerfully manipulative central character, a year before it is first produced (in Germany) | |
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| 1892 |
| | | Oscar Wilde's comedy Lady Windermere's Fan is a great success with audiences in London's St. James Theatre | |
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| 1892 |
| | | W.B. Yeats publishes a short play The Countess Cathleen, his first contribution to Irish poetic drama | |
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| 1892 |
| | | Bernard Shaw's first play, Widowers' Houses, deals with the serious social problem of slum landlords | |
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| 1892 |
| | | Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck publishes his play Pelléas et Mélisande | |
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| 1895 |
| | | Oscar Wilde's most brilliant comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest is performed in London's St. James Theatre | |
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| 1896 |
| | | Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull has a disastrous premiere in St Petersburg (but is well received two years later in Moscow) | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Chekhov's The Seagull, directed by Konstantin Stanislavsky, succeeds at the Moscow Art Theatre | |
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