28 January, 1595 - The Set at Maw

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

Henslowe writes: y^e 28 of Jenewary 1594 ... R at the mawe ... xxvij^s 

In modern English: 28^th January, 1595 ... Received at The Maw ... 27 shillings

The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs by Georges
de la Tour (1620s)

Today, the Admiral's Men returned to The Set at Maw, a lost play whose content had something to do with the card game known as Maw. You can read more about this play in the entry for 14 December.

Yesterday's performance of Tamburlaine might have led us to expect its sequel today. Instead, we get this enigmatic lost play. The players are reviving it after nearly two weeks, and there has been little change in its very average box office.

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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