17 June, 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 18 of June 1592 ... xxiiij^s 

In modern English: Received at Hieronimo, 17^th June, 1592 ... 24 shillings 

Henslowe appears to have muddled the date again today; I'm going to assume he mistakenly wrote '18' for '17' (since the company would otherwise be skipping Saturday and performing on a Sunday, which would be odd).

Woodcut from the 1615 edition of The Spanish Tragedy.

Anyway, 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. 

The company had last performed this play just over a week ago. Its box office continues to be weak, but the company still seems to find it worth their while to perform it very frequently.

• 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)
• Friday, 9th June - 28 shillings (performed as an individual play)
• Saturday, 17th June - 24 shillings (performed as an individual play)

What's next?

There will be no entry tomorrow because 18th June was a Sunday in 1592. Henslowe's Diary ... as a Blog! will thus return on 19th June for a week in which this season at the Rose will end abruptly and unexpectedly.

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)

Comments?

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