21 June, 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 21 of June ... R at the knacke ... xiij^s

In modern English: 21^st June ... Received at The Knack ... 13 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, 1594.

The company last performed this play two weeks ago during the Whitsuntide holiday, when it had been a great success, but today, on a more normal day, the crowd is tiny.

What's next?

There will be no blog entry tomorrow, because 22 June was a Sunday in 1595 and the players did not perform. Henslowe's Diary ... as a Blog! will thus return on the 23rd for a week that will end prematurely when the riots ongoing in London will finally have an effect upon Henslowe's work. .

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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