8 October, 1595 - The New World's Tragedy

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

Henslowe writes: y^e 7 of octobȝ 1595 ... R at the worldes tragedy ... xxxj^s 

In modern English: [8^th] October, 1595 ... Received at The World's Tragedy ... 31 shillings

Walter Raleigh attacking Trinidad in 1595, by
Theodore de Bry (1595)

Today, the Admiral's Men revived a lost play that Henslowe calls The World's Tragedy, but was probably in fact called The New World's Tragedy and may have been about a calamitous event in the Americas. You can read more about this play in the entry for 17 September.

The New World's Tragedy is not doing well. By its third performance, it is already receiving only average box office. The audience is dwindling quickly.

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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