Wednesday 29 August 2018

29 August, 1594 - Mahamet

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

Henslowe writes: ye 27 of aguste 1594 ... R at mahemet ... xxxxs

In modern English: [29th] August, 1594 ... Received at Mahamet ... 40 shillings
1629 Portuguese illustration of the Battle of Alcazar
Today, the company returned to Mahamet, which may survive today as The Battle of Alcazar. If so, it was a popular old play that told the story of Abd el-Malik's struggle for the throne of Morocco against the vicious usurper Muly Mahamet; you can read more about it in the entry for 21st February, 1592.

Mahamet may not have been literally new when it was staged a week and a half ago, but, having been revived after perhaps more than a year off the stage, it is behaving like a new play in terms of box office, with a larger-than-average crowd filling the Rose.


Henslowe links



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