29 August, 1594 - Mahamet

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

Henslowe writes: y^e 27 of aguste 1594 ... R at mahemet ... xxxx^s

In modern English: [29^th] August, 1594 ... Received at Mahamet ... 40 shillings

1629 Portuguese illustration of the Battle of Alcazar

Today, the company returned to Mahamet, which may survive today as The Battle of Alcazar. If so, it was a popular old play that told the story of Abd el-Malik's struggle for the throne of Morocco against the vicious usurper Muly Mahamet; you can read more about it in the entry for 21st February, 1592.

Mahamet may not have been literally new when it was staged a week and a half ago, but, having been revived after perhaps more than a year off the stage, it is behaving like a new play in terms of box office, with a larger-than-average crowd filling 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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