25 October, 1595 - Crack Me This Nut

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

Henslowe writes: y^e 24 of octobȝ 1595 ... R at cracke me this nvtte ... xxiij shillings


In modern English: [25^th] October, 1595 ... Received at Crack Me This Nut ... 23 shillings

Dessert Still Life by Georg Flegel (1566-1638)

Today, the Admiral's Men returned to Crack Me This Nut. We know nothing about the content of this lost play, but you can read more about it in the entry for 5th September.

Amazingly, the company has performed Crack Me This Nut twice in one week, something they very rarely do. It has returned the same box office as last time, suggesting that the play has a small but faithful following.

What's next?

There will be no blog entry tomorrow because 26th October was a Sunday in 1595 and the players did no perform. Henslowe's Diary ... as a Blog! will thus return on the 27th for a week that will include a new play. 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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