31 January, 1597 - Hieronimo

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

Henslowe writes: 31 | tt at Joronymo ... | 01 | 04

In modern English: 31^st [January, 1597] ... total at Hieronimo ... £1 and 4 shillings [i.e. 24 shillings]

Woodcut from the 1615 edition of The Spanish Tragedy.

Today, the Lord Admiral'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 continues to perform The Spanish Tragedy approximately once a week. Today's box office is a little better than last time, and this old play continues to do better than most of the newer ones.

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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