5 May, 1597 - A French Comedy

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

Henslowe writes: 5 | tt at frenshe comodey ...  | 01 | 07

In modern English: 5 [May, 1597] ... total at French Comedy ... £1 and 7 shillings [i.e. 27 shillings]

Antoine Watteau, Actors of the
Comédie-Française (1710s)

Today, the Admiral's Men performed A French Comedy, a lost play. You can read more about this play in the entry for 18 April.

The company has been staging A French Comedy more frequently than any other play. Today's box office is slightly higher than the last, and overall it has shown remarkable consistency.

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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