26 August, 1594 - Philippo and Hippolito

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

Henslowe writes: y^e 24 of aguste 1594 ... R at phillipo & hewpolyto ... xxviij^s

In modern English: [26^th] August, 1594 ... Received at Philippo and Hippolito ... 28 shillings

Two Young Men by Crispin van den Broeck, c.1590

Today, the company returned to Philippo and Hippolito, their enigmatic lost play about two men of that name. You can read more about this play in the entry for 9 July.

As with the previous performance, the company have waited a week and a half before reviving Philippo and Hippolito. Unlike some of its fellows in the repertory, the play has rebounded slightly since last time, to a rather more tolerable level of box office receipts.

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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