24 May, 1595 - The French Doctor

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

Henslowe writes: y^e 234 maye 1595 ... R at the frenshe docter ... xxij^s 

In modern English: 24^th May, 1595 ... Received at The French Doctor ... 22 shillings

A French Physician, by Matthew Darly, 1771

Today, the Admiral's Men revived The French Doctor, a lost play that you can read more about in the entry for 19 October, 1594.

The French Doctor rarely attracts a large audience; today's crowd, though below average, is much bigger than it often gets.

What's next?

There will be no blog entry tomorrow because 25th May was a Sunday in 1595 and the players did not perform. Henslowe's Diary ... as a Blog! will thus return on the 26th. See you then!

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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