14 May, 1597 - Five Plays in One

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

Henslowe writes: 14 | tt at v playes in one | 00 | 07

In modern English: 14^th [May, 1597] ... total at Five Plays in One ... 7 shillings

The number 5 in a
column of figures
in Henslowe's Diary

Today, the Admiral's Men revived their lost piece Five Plays in One, which was probably a collection of one-act plays, perhaps linked by a narrative device; you can read more about it in the entry for 7 April. 

The company has again waited a week and a half to return the five plays to the Rose. But now the box office has plummeted even further into truly awful territory.

What's next?

There will be no blog entry tomorrow because 15 May was a Sunday in 1597 and the players did not perform. Henslowe's Diary ... as a Blog! will thus return on the 16th for a week that will include some festive fun!

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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