4 July, 1594 - Cutlack

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

Henslowe writes: y^e 4 of Julye 1594 ... R at cvtlacke ... xxiiij^s

In modern English: 4^th July, 1594 ... Received at Cutlack ... 24 shillings.

Illustration of Belinus (or Brennius, it's not clear)
from Holinshed's Chronicles (1577)

Today, the the Admiral's Men revived Cutlack, their play about the eponymous Danish king and his intervention in the civil war between the British kings Brennius and Belinus. You can read more about this play in the entry for 16 May, 1594.

The company has been performing Cutlack more frequently than the others in its repertory;  it was last performed only 4 days ago, and the gap before that was only 3 days, compared to the full week that has been typical for other plays. But this approach may have resulted in overkill, because today's performance was a disappointment, the first below-average audience of this week at the Rose.

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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