Literary Chronology

1558:

Thomas Kyd's exact birth date is unknown, but he was baptized on November 6 in London, England.

1564:

Christopher Marlowe is born on February 6 in Canterbury, England.

1564:

William Shakespeare is born on April 23 in Stratford-on-Avon, in Warwickshire, England.

1590:

Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great is published.

1593:

Christopher Marlowe is killed during an alleged argument over a bar bill.

1594:

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is published.

1594:

Thomas Kyd dies.

1606:

Pierre Corneille is born on June 6 in Rouen, France.

1616:

William Shakespeare dies on April 23, his fifty-second birthday, in Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England.

1636:

Pierre Corneille's Le Cid is published.

1684:

Pierre Corneille dies on October 1 in Paris, France.

1854:

Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) is born on October 16 in Dublin, Ireland.

1895:

Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband is published.

1900:

Oscar Wilde dies on November 30 in Paris, France. He was buried in the French National Cemetery of Père Lachaise.

1914:

Marguerite Duras (Marguerite Donnadieu) is born on April 14 in French Indochina, a region that is now part of South Vietnam.

1926:

Mel Brooks (Melvyn Kaminsky) is born on June 28 in Brooklyn, New York.

1940:

Gao Xingjian (pronounced gow shing-yan) is born on January 4 in Ganzhou of Jiangxi province in eastern China.

1952:

Beth Henley (Elizabeth Becker Henley) is born on May 8 in Jackson, Mississippi.

1961:

Nilo Cruz is born in Matanzas, Cuba.

1965:

Naomi Iizuka is born in Japan.

1969:

David Auburn is born in Chicago, IL.

1980:

Beth Henley's The Miss Firecracker Contest is published.

1988:

Barbara Wiechmann's Feeding the Moonfish is published.

1990:

Gao Xingjian's The Other Shore is published.

1993:

Marguerite Duras's India Song is published.

1996:

Marguerite Duras dies on March 3 in Paris, France.

1997:

Douglas Carter Beane's As Bees in Honey Drown is published.

2000:

Gao Xingjian is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

2001:

Naomi Iizuka's 36 Views is published.

2001:

David Auburn's Proof is published.

2001:

Mel Brooks's The Producers is published.

2001:

David Auburn is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Proof.

2002:

Nilo Cruz's Anna in the Tropics is published.

2002:

Nilo Cruz is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Anna in the Tropics.