2 July, 1597 - A French Comedy

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

Henslowe writes: 2 | tt at frenshe comodey ...  | 00 | 04

In modern English: 2^nd [July, 1597] ... total at French Comedy ... 4 shillings

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

Today, the Admiral's Men chose to perform 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 a week to restage A French Comedy. Today's box office is tiny, yet the company continues to perform this play regularly.

What's next?

There will be no blog entry tomorrow because 3rd July was a Sunday in 1597 and the players did not perform. Henslowe's Diary ... as a Blog! will thus return on the 4th for a week that will see the return of an old friend.

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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