8 August, 1594 - The Massacre at Paris

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

Henslowe writes: y^e 8 of auguste 1594 ... R at the masacare... xxiij^s vj^d

In modern English: 8^th August, 1594 ... Received at The Massacre ... 23 shillings and sixpence

Henri, Duke of Guise, the villain of the play. 

Today, the Admiral's Men revived again Christopher Marlowe's tragedy about the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 16th-century Paris; you can read more about this play in the entry for 26 January, 1593.

The box office for The Massacre at Paris has been gradually slipping over the weeks. The players have again waited more than a week before reviving it, but interest is not picking up. Clearly, even mass death and evil Machiavels lose their appeal after a while.

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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