30 September, 1594 - Tamburlaine

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

Henslowe writes: y^e 28 of septmbȝ  1594 ... R at tamberlen ... xxxj^s 

In modern English: [30^th] September, 1594 ... Received at Tamburlaine ... 31 shillings.

Illustration of the historical Tamburlaine
from Richard Knolles' General History
of the Turks (1603).

Today, the players performed Tamburlaine, Christopher Marlowe's spectacular epic about the bloodthirsty conqueror of Asia. You can read more about this play in the entry for 30th August.

For Tamburlaine's third outing after its return to the stage, the Admiral's Men have once again waited a fortnight before performing it. And the box office is not as good as one might expect, being merely average for the Rose. Has the return of Tamburlaine been more trouble than it is worth?

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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