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| 1600 |
| | | A performance in the Oratory in Rome, with music by Emilio de' Cavalieri, is in effect the first oratorio | |
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| 1601 |
| | | Shakespeare's central character in Hamlet expresses both the ideals of the Renaissance and the disillusion of a less confident age | |
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| 1605 |
| | | Ben Jonson writes The Masque of Blackness, the first of his many masques for the court of James I | |
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| 1606 |
| | | The satirical voice of the English playwright Ben Jonson is heard to powerful effect in Volpone | |
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| 1607 |
| | | Claudio Monteverdi presents Orfeo, the first opera to win a lasting place in the international repertory | |
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| c. 1611 |
| | | Shakespeare's last completed play, The Tempest, is performed | |
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| 1613 |
| | | The Globe catches fire during a performance of Shakespeare's last play, Henry VIII | |
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| 1618 |
| | | The Teatro Farnese in Parma is the first to have a proscenium arch, framing perspective scenery painted on flat wings | |
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| 1634 |
| | | A Passion play is performed for the first time at Oberammergau, in the spirit of the Counter-Reformation | |
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| 1637 |
| | | The first public opera house, the Teatro San Cassiano, opens in Venice | |
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