29 January, 1595 - The Second Part of Tamburlaine

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

Henslowe writes: y^e 29 of Jenewary 1594 ... R at the 2 pt of tamberlen ... xxxxvij^s

In modern English: 29^th January, 1595 ... Received at The Second Part of Tamburlaine ... 47 shillings

The mausoleum of Timur (or Tamburlaine)
in Samarkand

Today, the Admiral's Men performed the sequel to Tamburlaine, in which the conqueror of Asia meets his inevitable doom; you can read more about this play in the entry for 19th December.

The company had performed the first part of Tamburlaine two days ago, but had played an unrelated play yesterday, breaking the sense of a pairing with the sequel. This interruption does not seem to have affected the popularity of The Second Part, however: it attracted a very large audience, much larger than that of the original play.

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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