Tuesday 12 March 2019

12 March, 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: ye 12 of marche 1594 ... R at the 2 pt of tamberlen ... xxijs

In modern English: 12th March, 1595 ... Received at The Second Part of Tamburlaine ... 22 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 continues to perform the two Tamburlaine plays as a pair on subsequent days. But today, for the first time, the box office for The Second Part is lower than that for the first.

Henslowe links



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