Wednesday 24 October 2018

24 October, 1594 - Tasso's Melancholy

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

Henslowe writes: ye 23 of octobȝ 1594 ... R at tasso ... xxiijs 

In modern English: [24th] October, 1594 ... Received at Tasso ... 23 shillings

Tasso in the Madhouse
by Eugene Delacroix (1839)
Today, the Admiral's Men returned to Tasso's Melancholy, a lost play that dramatized the lovesick insanity of the Italian poet Torquato Tasso; you can read more about it in the entry for 13th August.

The players have been performing Tasso's Melancholy at irregular intervals, and this time have waited two weeks between performances. The play continues to decline further and further below the average for the Rose.

Henslowe links



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