22 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 22 of Janewarye 1597 ... R at Joronymo ... xix^s

In modern English: 22^nd January, 1597 ... Received at Hieronimo ... 19 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 seems to be settling into a groove of performing The Spanish Tragedy once a week. Today's crowd is not very large, but this old play is still doing a lot better than the newer members of the repertory this week.

What's next?

There will be no blog entry tomorrow because 23 January was a Sunday in 1597 and the players did not perform. Henslowe's Diary ... as a Blog! will thus return on the 24th, when everything will suddenly look weird and different - watch this space to find out why!

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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