Henslowe writes: ye 20 of Julye 1594 ... R at bellendon ... xxvijs
In modern English: 20th July, 1594 ... Received at Belin Dun ... 27 shillings
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A highwayman portrayed in Richard
Head's The English Rogue (1666)
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Today, the Admiral's Men once again performed Belin Dun, their lost play about the notorious robber who terrorized the highways around Dunstable during the reign of King Henry I; you can read more about this play in the entry for 10 June.
Previously, the players had been performing Belin Dun approximately once every four days, but this time, they have left it alone for over a week. Perhaps the intention was to increase the audience's appetite for seeing the play again, but if so, the plan did not really work: it received exactly the same box office that the previous outing did. The public seems reliably OK with Belin Dun, whenever it's performed.
What's next?
There will be no blog entry tomorrow, because 21 July was a Sunday in 1594, and so the players did not perform. Henslowe's Diary ... as a Blog! will thus return on the 22nd, for a week that will include a mixture of classic and more recent plays. See you then!
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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