6 February, 1595 - A Knack to Know an Honest Man

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

Henslowe writes: y^e 6 of febreary 1594 ... R at the knacke ... xxiiij^s

In modern English: 6^th February, 1595 ... Received at The Knack ... 24 shillings

Two  Young Venetian Men (anon., 1515)

Today, the Admiral's Men revived A Knack to Know an Honest Man, their comical moral romance set in Venice. You can read more about this play in the entry for 23rd October.

For a long while this has been one of the company's more frequently-performed plays, but his time they have waited 3 and a half weeks before reviving it. The results are not encouraging, as absence does not appear to have made the audience's hearts grow fonder.

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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