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The History of Theatre

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Earliest reference to a competition for tragedies in Ancient Greece

524 BC

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Greek playwright Euripides born. Wrote more than 90plays;18 still exist

about 484BC

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Greek playwright Aristophanes writes “The Frogs”

about 405BC

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Greek Dramareaches Rome

about 338 BC

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re-built in stone in Athens,Greece

Theatre of Dionysus about 300 BC

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First stone theatre built in Rome

55BC

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740 AD

First Chinese Drama school founded

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1300s

Mystery Play cycles emerge inEurope

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 about 1370

Nō style of theatrestartsin Japan

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Earliest record of Commedia dell’Arte in Italy

1545

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 Spanish playwright Lope de Vega born. Probably wrote more plays than anyone else – more than 300

1562

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1564 

William Shakespeareborn in

Stratford upon Avon

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1567 

First public theatre opens in England

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late 1500s

First indoor theatresin Western Europe

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late 1500s 

First Operacomposed in Italy

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 William Shakespeare writes “Romeoand Juliet”

about 1595

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1598

The Globe theatre built in London. Shakespeare acted and his plays were performed here

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 Japanese theatre style Kabuki starts

1603

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Ben Jonson (English) writes “Volpone”

1606

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 William Shakespeare

dies in London

1616

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1637 

First opera house opens in Venice, Italy

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 Theatres in England were closed bythe Puritans

1642-1660

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Samuel Pepys records in his diary that he saw a Pulchinella (Punchand Judy) showin London

1662

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1660s

Women act for thefirst time on the English stage

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 French playwright

Molière writes “Le Misanthrope”

1666

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1671 

Paris Opéra opens – and burns down two

years later

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Aphra Benn, first known English female playwright, writes “The Rover”

1677

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English playwright William Congreve writes “The Way

of the World”

1700

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 German playwright Goethe begins the play “Faust”

about 1773

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1788 

La Scala opera house opens in Milan, Italy

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Gas lighting first used in London’s theatres

1817

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1871 

Giuseppe Verdi writes the opera “Aida”

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 Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen writes “A Doll’s House”

1879

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1881

First electric lightsused in theatre(Savoy, London)

 

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 Swedish playwrightAugust Strindberg writes

1888

“Miss Julie”

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 Russian playwright Anton Checkhov writes “The Three Sisters”

1901

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 Romanian playwright Eugène Ionesco born. Wrote many surreal plays, such as “Rhinoceros” (1960)

1912

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German playwright Bertolt Brecht writes “Mother Courage and Her Children”

1941

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 English playwright John Osborne writes “Look Back in Anger”

1953

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 Irish playwright Samuel Beckett writes “Waiting for Godot”

1953

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American playwrightArthur Miller writes “TheCrucible”

1953

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 English playwright Harold Pinter writes“The Caretaker”

1960

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English playwright Tom Stoppard writes “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”

1967

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1968

Stage censorship abolished in Great Britain

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1969 Andrew Lloyd-Webber

and Tim Rice (British) write the musical “Jesus Christ – Superstar!”

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1973 

Sydney opera house opens in Australia

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“Bombay Dreams”opens - the first London musical with anall-Asian cast

2002

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