13 November, 1595 - Tamburlaine, Part Two

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

Henslowe writes: y^e 13 of novmbȝ 1595 ... R at 2 pt of tambrlen ... xxxij^s

In modern English: 13^th November, 1595 ... Received at Second Part of Tamburlaine ... 32 shillings

The mausoleum of Timur (or Tamburlaine)
in Samarkand

Today, for the last time, the Admiral's Men performed the sequel to Tamburlaine, in which the conqueror of Asia meets his inevitable doom; you can read more about this play in the entry for 19th December, 1594.

Yesterday was the last ever recorded performance of Tamburlaine at the Rose. And today is the final performance of its sequel. In fact The Second Part of Tamburlaine has attracted a decent sized crowd - in general, it has been more popular than part one. Despite this, the company is abandoning it too; presumably they feel that it doesn't work a a stand-alone play.

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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