28 January, 1597 - Long Meg of Westminster

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

Henslowe writes: 28 | tt at long mege | 0 | 07

In modern English: 28^th [January, 1597] ... total at Long Meg ... 7 shillings

Long Meg, from
a 1750 edition
of the jest-book

Today, for the last time, the Admiral's Men revived Long Meg of Westminster, their play about the Amazonian warrior woman of London legend. You can read more about this play in the entry for 14 February, 1595.

Long Meg has not been seen at the Rose since the end of November. Despite its promising subject matter, it rarely attracted large audiences and today's crowd is tiny. The company seems to have decided to give up on it, as today is its last recorded appearance. Farewell, Long Meg!

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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