20 September, 1595 - The Siege of London

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

Henslowe writes: y^e 20 of septmbȝ 1595 ... R at the sege of london ... xvij^s 

In modern English: 20^th September, 1595 ... Received at The Siege of London ... 17 shillings

Thomas Neville's siege of London, from a
1391 French manuscript

Today the Admiral's Men staged The Siege of London, an enigmatic lost play that might have portrayed the attacks on London by Canute in 1016 or by Thomas Neville in 1471. You can read more about this play in the entry for 27 December, 1594.

The players last performed The Siege of London three weeks ago. It has not attracted a large audience, continuing a rather dismal run of shows over the last few days.

What's next?

There will be no blog entry tomorrow because 21 September was a Sunday in 1595 and the players did not perform. Henslowe's Diary ... as a Blog! will thus return on 22 September. See you then!

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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