27 July, 1594 - The Massacre at Paris

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

Henslowe writes: y^e 27 of Julye 1594 ... R at the masacer... xxij^s

In modern English: 27^th July, 1594 ... Received at The Massacre ... 22 shillings.

Henri, Duke of Guise, the villain of the play. 

Today, the Admiral's Men revived again Christopher Marlowe's tragedy about the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 16th century Paris; you can read more about this play in the entry for 26 January, 1593.

The players have waited a week and a half since their last performance of The Massacre at Paris but this has not improved its box office, which is now slipping from just-about-average to not-very-good.

What's next?

There will be no blog entry tomorrow, because 28 July was a Sunday in 1594, and the players did not perform. Henslowe's Diary ... as a Blog! will thus return on 29 July, for a week that will include a new play among the usual suspects.

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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