12 November, 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 12 of novmbȝ 1594 ... R at tasso ... xxv^s 

In modern English: 12^th November, 1594 ... Received at Tasso ... 25 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.

The players have been performing Tasso's Melancholy at irregular intervals, and this time have waited almost three weeks between performances. The play's box office is slightly up, but only by a little, and it is still below the average for 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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