Henslowe writes: 29 | tt at womon hard to please ... | 02 | 03
In modern English: 29th [January, 1597] ... total at Woman's Hard to Please ... £2 and 3 shillings [i.e. 43 shillings]
Today, the Admiral's Men revived their enigmatic lost play A Woman Hard to Please. You can read more about this play in the entry for 27 January.
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| A woman looks deeply unimpressed by her rescuer in Paolo Uccello's St George and the Dragon (c.1470) |
The company has rushed A Woman Hard to Please back to the stage only two days after its premiere. Today's box office indicates a theatre much more than half full, suggesting strong word of mouth among theatregoers.
What's next?
There will be no blog entry tomorrow because 30 January was a Sunday in 1597 and the players did not perform. Henslowe's Diary ... as a Blog! will thus return on the 31st, for a week that will include a play haven't seen before.
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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