5 May, 1592 - The Jew of Malta

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

Henslowe writes: R at the Jewe of mallta the 5 of maye 15912 ... xxxxj^s

In modern English: Received at The Jew of Malta, 5^th May, 1592 ... 41 shillings

Caravaggio's portrait of the Grand

Master of the Knights of Malta,

1607-8.

Today, Lord Strange's Men performed their satirical comic tragedy The Jew of Malta again. You can read more about this play in the blog entry for 26th February.

The company has settled into a groove of performing The Jew of Malta approximately once every fortnight. As with the last few performances, the play is not achieving stunning popularity, but nonetheless it continues to perform better than the average play in the repertory.

• Saturday, 26th February - 50 shillings
• Friday, 10th March - 56 shillings
• Saturday, 18th March - 39 shillings
• Tuesday, 4th April, 43 shillings
• Tuesday,  18th April, 48 shillings and sixpence
• Friday, 5th May, 41 shillings

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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