17 June, 1595 - The French Comedy

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

Henslowe writes: y^e 17 of June 1595 .....  R at the frenshe comodey ... xxj^s 

In modern English: 17^th June, 1595 ... Received at The French Comedy ... 21 shillings.

French commedia dell'arte performers,
from a 17th-century engraving by Jacques Callot

Today, the Admiral's Men returned to The French Comedy, a lost play about which we know almost nothing. You can read more about it in the entry for February 11.  

The company continues to perform this play infrequently, this time waiting over a fortnight to revive it. The box office is a bit better than last time, but one cannot help but continue to suspect that The French Comedy wasn't all that funny.

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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