10 September, 1595 - Doctor Faustus

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

Henslowe writes: y^e 11 of septmbȝ 1595 ... R at doctor fostes ... xxx^s ij

In modern English: [10^th] September, 1595 ... Received at Doctor Faustus ... 30 shillings and tuppence

Faustus summoning Mephistopheles: from the
1616 text of the play 

Today, the Admiral's Men returned to Christopher Marlowe's famous tragedy Dr Faustus, in which a scholar summons a demon and sells his soul to the devil. You can read more about this play in the entry for 2 October.

The company has not performed Dr Faustus since June. Its box office had often been low back then, but today the half-full theatre shows some renewed enthusiasm for this classic play.

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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