18 September, 1595 - A Knack to Know an Honest Man

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

Henslowe writes: y^e 18 of septmbȝ 1595 ... R at the knacke ... xvij^s

In modern English: 18^th September, 1595 ... Received at The Knack ... 17 shillings

Two  Young Venetian Men (anon., 1515)

Today, the Admiral's Men chose to revive A Knack to Know an Honest Man, their comical moral romance set in Venice. You can read more about this play in the entry for 23rd October, 1594.

The company opened their latest season with this play two and a half weeks ago, but they have not performed it again until now, and it received exactly the same (fairly meagre) box office as last time. The Knack is not the crowd-pleaser that it once was.

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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