17 January, 1597 - Hieronimo

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

Henslowe writes: y^e 17 of Janewary 1597 ... R at Joronymo ... xx^s

In modern English: 17^th January, 1597 ... Received at Hieronimo ... 20 shillings 

Woodcut from the 1615 edition of The Spanish Tragedy.

Today, Lord Strange's Men revived Hieronimo, which is almost certainly an alternate title for Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, a famous and much-loved old play about the revenge of a grieving father for his son's death. You can read more about this play in the entry for 14th March, 1592.

The company has returned to The Spanish Tragedy after a week. But the large crowds that came to see it on its first two outings this season have dwindled; the excitement of the return of a classic seems to have faded. 

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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