4 November, 1597 - A Humorous Day's Mirth

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

Henslowe writes: 4| tt at vmers... | 00 | 16

In modern English: 4^th [November, 1597] ... total at Humours ... 16 shillings

Today, the Admiral's Men revived their 

A classic image of a
melancholic, from
Robert Burton's Anatomy
of Melancholy (1622)

Comedy of Humours, which is almost certainly another name for George Chapman's A Humorous Day's Mirth. You can read more about this eccentric comedy in the entry for 11 May. 

A Humorous Day's Mirth  has been a stupendous success this year, but today's box office is less impressive, being no better than some of the other plays staged this week. Perhaps it is gradually becoming shopworn. 

This is the last recorded performance of A Humorous Day's Mirth, but that doesn't mean the company will never perform it again (the Diary will come to an end tomorrow, but the Rose performances will not).

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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