26 June, 1594 - Cutlack

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

Henslowe writes: y^e 24 of June 1594 ... R at cvtlacke ... xxv^s

In modern English: 26^th June, 1594 ... Received at Cutlack ... 25 shillings.

Illustration of Belinus (or Brennius, it's not clear)
from Holinshed's Chronicles (1577)

Today, the Admiral's Men revived Cutlack, their play about a bombastic Danish king and his intervention in the civil war between Brennius and Belinus in ancient Britain. You can read more about this play in the entry for 16 May, 1594.

The company had last peformed Cutlack only a week ago to a half-full theatre. Today's crowd was smaller still, suggesting that the play's appeal was already dwindling .

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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