31 May, 1592 - Hieronimo

Here's what Lord Strange's Men performed at the Rose playhouse on this day, 424 years ago...

Henslowe writes: R at Jeronymo the 19 27 maye 1592 ... xxiij^s 

In modern English: Received at Hieronimo, 31^st May, 1592 ... 23 shillings 

Woodcut from the 1615 edition of The Spanish Tragedy.

Today, Lord Strange's Men revived Hieronimo, which is almost certainly an alternate title for Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy. You can read more about this play in the entry for 14th March. 

Today's performance returned the lowest box office that this play had ever received. The once all-conquering Spanish Tragedy is sinking from the doldrums of the average into the abyss of the ho-hum.

• Tuesday, 14th March - 71 shillings (performed the day after the Comedy)
• Monday, 20th March - 38 shillings (performed as an individual play)
• Friday, 31st March - 60 shillings (Easter Week; performed the day after the Comedy)
• Friday, 7th April - 26 shillings (performed as an individual play)
• Friday, 14th April - 33 shillings (performed as an individual play)
• Monday, 24th April - 28 shillings (performed one working day after the Comedy, but with Sunday interrupting)
• Tuesday, 2nd May - 34 shillings (performed as an individual play)
• Thursday, 11th May - 26 shillings (performed as an individual play)
• Monday, 15th May - 64 shillings (Whitsuntide; performed as an individual play)
• Thursday, 25th May - 27 shillings (performed the day after the Comedy)
• Wednesday, 31st May - 23 shillings (performed as an individual play)

Henslowe links

• Transcript of this page of the Diary (from W.W. Greg's 1904 edition)
• Facsimile of this page of the Diary (from the Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project)

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