21 April, 1595 - The French Doctor

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

Henslowe writes: easter mondaye 1595 easter ... R at the ffrenshe doctor ... liij^s 

In modern English: Easter Monday, 1595 ... Received at The French Doctor ... 53 shillings

A French Physician, byMatthew Darly, 1771

Welcome back! Today, on Easter Monday, the players returned to the Rose Theatre after a 5-week hiatus during Lent. They opened their new season with a revival of The French Doctor, a lost play that you can read more about in the entry for 19 October.

The holiday season brought a large crowd to the playhouse today. The players must be glad to be back and they probably intend to stay here all summer as they did last year. However, as we will discover, there are stormclouds on the horizon for June. Stay tuned...

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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