23 October, 1595 - The New World's Tragedy

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

Henslowe writes: y^e 22 of octobȝ 1595 ... R at the worldes tragedy ... xxxiij^s 

In modern English: [23^rd] October, 1595 ... Received at The World's Tragedy ... 33 shillings

Walter Raleigh attacking Trinidad, by
Theodore de Bry (1595)

Today, the Admiral's Men revived a lost play that Henslowe calls The World's Tragedy, but was probably in fact called The New World's Tragedy and may have been about a calamitous event in the Americas. You can read more about this play in the entry for 17 September.

The company has waited two and a half weeks to revive The New World's Tragedy. Its box office is average for the Rose, suggesting a half-full theatre, but it is slightly higher than last time.

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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