Henslowe writes: ye 8 of aguste 1594 ... R at cvttlacke ... xiijs vjd
In modern English: 10th August, 1594 ... Received at Cutlack ... 13 shillings and sixpence
Illustration of Belinus (or Brennius, it's not clear) from Holinshed's Chronicles (1577) |
Interest in Cutlack has been fading for a while. The players last performed it a week and a half ago, but today's box office is truly awful, just like that of The Jew of Malta yesterday. The coincidence of two thinly-attended performances in a row, however, makes me wonder whether the culprit is actually a patch of bad weather rather than the plays being staged.
What's next?
There will be no blog entry tomorrow because 11th August was a Sunday in 1594 and the players did not perform. Henslowe's Diary ... as a Blog! will thus return on 12th August for a week that will include two new plays!
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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