Theatre History Timeline

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  • Period: 2800 BCE to 2400 BCE

    First architectural evidence of theatre (in Egypt)

  • Period: 496 BCE to 406 BCE

    Sophocles birth and death

  • Approximate writing of Oedipus at Colonus
    406 BCE

    Approximate writing of Oedipus at Colonus

  • Period: 384 BCE to 322 BCE

    Aristotle birth and death

  • Aristotle's Poetics
    330 BCE

    Aristotle's Poetics

  • Period: 476 to 800

    Dark Ages in Europe

  • Period: 1363 to 1443

    Playwright Zeami birth and death

  • 1400

    Approximate dates for Noh appearing in Japan

  • Period: 1400 to

    Renaissance in Europe

  • Period: 1500 to

    Approximate dates for Kathakali appearing in India

  • Period: Apr 26, 1564 to

    Shakespeare's birth and death

  • Publication of Shakespeare's Henry VI - Part 2 (annotated) Henry VI, Part 1

  • Publication of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis

    Publication of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis

  • Publication of Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona - Titus Andronicus

  • Publication of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew

  • Publication of Shakespeare's

  • Publication of Shakespeare's Richard II

  • Publication of Shakespeare's Edward III

  • Publication of Shakespeare's Richard III - Romeo and Juliet

  • Publication of Shakespeare's Love Labour's Lost

  • Publication of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

    Publication of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

  • Publication of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2 - The Merchant of Venice

  • Period: to

    Approximate dates for Commedia dell'Arte popular in Europe

  • Publication of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor

  • Publication of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

  • Publication of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Won - Othello - Hamlet

  • Publication of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Publication of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

  • Publication of Shakespeare's King Lear - Macbeth

  • Publication of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra

  • Publication of Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre - Troilus and Cressida

    Publication of Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre - Troilus and Cressida

  • Publication of Shakespeare's Cymbeline

  • Publication of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1

  • Publication of Shakespeare's Henry VIII

  • Publication of Shakespeare's Henry VI: Part 3, King John – Timon of Athens – The Winter’s Tale – Measure of Measure Illustrated – All’s Well That Ends Well – As You Like It – The Tempest

  • Publication of Shakespeare's The Two Noble Kinsmen

    Publication of Shakespeare's The Two Noble Kinsmen

  • Publication of Shakespeare's Double Falsehood

  • Period: to

    Dates of Industrial Revolution

  • Period: to

    The date of the American Revolution

  • Period: to

    Henrik Ibsen birth and death

  • Period: to

    Konstantin Stanislavski (Constantin Stanislavsky) birth and death

  • Publication of "Hedda Gabler"

  • Date of Moscow Art Theatre formation

    Date of Moscow Art Theatre formation

  • Period: to

    date of the Russian Revolution

  • Publication of Shakespeare's A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Hamlet 1877

  • Publication of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

  • Publication of Shakespeare's Roméo et Juliette

  • Publication of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

    Publication of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

  • Publication of Shakespeare's Coriolanus

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