Literary Chronology

1578: John Webster is born in London sometime after 1578.

1612: John Webster's The White Devil is published.

1634: John Webster dies. Although no one knows the date of Webster's death, Thomas Heywood lists him as a dead dramatist in 1634.

1856: George Bernard Shaw is born in Dublin, Ireland on July 26.

1880: Sean O'Casey is born on March 30 in Dublin, Ireland.

1889: Howard Lindsay is born on March 28 in Waterford, New York.

1893: Russel Crouse is born on February 20 in Findlay, Ohio.

1902: George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession is published.

1903: Clare Boothe Luce (Ann Clare Boothe) is born on April 10 in New York City.

1906: Sidney Kingsley (Sidney Kieschner) is born on October 22 in New York City.

1910: Jean Anouilh is born near Bordeaux, France on June 23.

1912: Hugh (Callingham) Wheeler is born on March 19 in London, England.

1929: John Osborne is born on December 12 in London, England.

1936: Clare Boothe Luce's The Women is published.

1939: Terrence McNally is born on November 3 in St. Petersburg, Florida.

1943: Sean O'Casey's Red Roses for Me is published.

1945: Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse's State of the Union is published.

1945: Steve (Stephen) Martin is born on Waco, Texas on August 14.

1949: Sidney Kingsley's Detective Story is published.

1950: George Bernard Shaw dies at ninety-four in Ayot St. Lawrence, England on November 2.

1957: Warren Leight is born on January 15 in New York City.

1958: Migdalia Cruz is born on November 8 in the Bronx, New York.

1959: Yasmina Reza is born in Paris, France on May 1.

1959: Jean Anouilh's Becket, or the Honor of God is published.

1961: John Osborne's Luther is published.

1964: Sean O'Casey dies on September 18 in Torquay, England.

1966: Russel Crouse dies on April 3 in New York City.

1968: Howard Lindsay dies on February 11 in New York City.

1979: Hugh Wheeler's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is published.

1987: Jean Anouilh dies in Sausanne, Switzerland, on October 3.

1987: Hugh Wheeler dies of heart and lung disease on July 26 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

1987: Clare Boothe Luce dies of cancer on October 9 in Washington, D.C.

1990: Migdalia Cruz's Telling Tales is published.

1994: Yasmina Reza's Art is published.

1994: Terrence McNally's Love! Valour! Compassion! is published.

1994: John Osborne dies of heart failure and diabetes on December 24 in Shropshire, England.

1995: Sidney Kingsley dies of a stroke on March 20 in Oakland, New Jersey.

1996: Steve Martin's WASP is published.

1998: Warren Leight's Side Man is published.