13 September, 1595 - Long Meg of Westminster

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

Henslowe writes: R at longe mege ... xvj^s

In modern English: Received at Long Meg ...  16 shillings

Long Meg, from
a 1750 edition
of the jest-book

For some reason, Henslowe did not give a date for this entry, but logic dictates that it was 13 September. On this day, the Admiral's Men returned to Long Meg of Westminster, their play about the Amazonian warrior woman of London legend. You can read more about this play in the entry for 14 February.

Long Meg continues to return extremely negligible box office. One cannot help wonder whether the company will give up on it soon.

What's next?

There will be no blog entry tomorrow because 14 September was a Sunday in 1595 and the players did not perform. Henslowe's Diary ... as a Blog! will thus return on the 15th, for a week that will include a new play. 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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