28 August, 1595 - Long Meg of Westminster

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

Henslowe writes: y^e 28 of aguste 1595 ... R at longe mege ... xvij^s

In modern English: 28^th August, 1595 ... Received at Long Meg ...  17 shillings

Long Meg, from
a 1750 edition
of the jest-book

Today, the Admiral's Men returned to Long Meg of Westminster, their play about the Amazonian warrior woman of London legend. You can read more about this play in the entry for 14 February.

After yesterday's burst of enthusiasm of The Seven Days of the Week, the box office has slumped again with the return of Long Meg, a play that has never been very popular. Despite the company's long break over the summer, the London audience does not seem to have been missing most of its plays, treating them instead as ho-hum repetition.

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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