9 October, 1594 - Tasso's Melancholy

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

Henslowe writes: y^e 8 of octobȝ 1594 ... R at Tasso ... xxvij^s 

In modern English: [9^th] October, 1594 ... Received at Tasso ... 27 shillings

Tasso in the Madhouse
by Eugene Delacroix (1839)

Today, the Admiral's Men returned to Tasso's Melancholy, a lost play that dramatized the lovesick insanity of the Italian poet Torquato Tasso; you can read more about it in the entry for 13th August.

Last time, the players waited a fortnight before staging Tasso's Melancholy again. This time, they have waited three weeks. This has had no effect on the play's success, which remains at its below average level after the last performance's precipitous drop.

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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