10 February, 1595 - The Venetian Comedy

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

Henslowe writes: y^e 10 of febreary 1594 ... R at the venesyan ... xx^s 

In modern English: 10^th February, 1595 ... Received at The Venetian ... 20 shillings

The Quack Doctor by Pietro Longhi (late
18th century)

Today, the Admiral's Men revived The Venetian Comedy, a play about which we know nothing beyond its title. You can read more about it in the entry for 27 August.

The players have not performed this play for two and a half months, but today they have decided to revive it. The box office remains unimpressive, however, as it has done almost every time the players have performed this comedy.

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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