21 November, 1595 - A Toy to Please Chaste Ladies

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

Henslowe writes: y^e 21 of novmbȝ 1595 ... R at a toye to please chaste ladeyes ... xxj^s 

In modern English: 21^st November, 1595 ... Received at A Toy to Please Chaste Ladies ... 21 shillings

Two Women at a Window by Murillo (1655-60)

Today, the Admiral's Men returned to A Toy to Please Chaste Ladies, an enigmatic lost play; you can read more about it in the entry for 14 November.

This is the second performance of A Toy to Please Chaste Ladies after its premiere a week ago. Unfortunately, word of mouth seems not to have been good, because its box office has already descended below the average for the Rose.

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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