12 May, 1597 - Uther Pendragon

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

Henslowe writes: 12 | tt at pendragon ... | 0 | 017

In modern English: 12^th [May, 1597] ... total at Pendragon ... 17 shillings

Uther Pendragon and Merlin, from British
Library manuscript Royal 20 A II
(early 14th century)

Today, the Admiral's Men revived Uther Pendragon, a lost play about the father of King Arthur. You can read more about this play in the entry for 29 April.

The company is continuing to perform Uther Pendragon once every few days, even though it is not proving at all popular.

What's next?

There will be no blog entry tomorrow because for unknown reasons Henslowe records no performance. Henslowe's Diary ... as a Blog! will thus return on the 14th - see you then!

 

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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