27 November, 1596 - A Toy to Please Chaste Ladies and a short hiatus

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

Henslowe writes: y^e 27 of novmbȝ 1596 ... R at the toye ... xj^s 

In modern English: 27^th November, 1596 ... Received at The Toy ... 11 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, 1595.

The Toy continues to return very poor box office, as is so often the case. 

A short hiatus

There will be no blog entries for a few days, for reasons unknown. For the rest of December, Henslowe's Diary becomes rather spotty, with the Rose apparently silent on occasional days. We don't know the reason for this, but Henslowe's Diary ... as a Blog! will return on December 2 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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