25 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 25 of febreary 1594 ... R at the venesyan comodey ... xx^s 

In modern English: 25^th February, 1595 ... Received at The Venetian Comedy ... 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 waited a fortnight to revive The Venetian Comedy. The box office keeps on being unimpressive, though never disastrously so.

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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