16 June, 1597 - A French Comedy

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

Henslowe writes: 16 | tt at frenshe comodey ...  | 00 | 07

In modern English: 16^th June, 1597 ... total at French Comedy ... 7 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 waited just over two weeks to return A French Comedy to the stage, and the box office has sunk to a dismal level. At the moment it seems that if a play is not A Humorous Day's Mirth, it's not going to draw a crowd.

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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