4 October, 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 4 of octobȝ 1595 ... R at longe mege ... xj

In modern English: 4^th October, 1595 ... Received at Long Meg ... 11 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.

The players have waited two and a half weeks to revive Long Meg, but her box office has declined to a truly miserable level. Surely it must be time for Meg to hang up her cudgel? You would think so, and indeed we will not see Meg for a long time, but she will return late next year, so don't forget about her.

What's next?

There will be no blog entry tomorrow because 5 October was a Sunday in 1595 and the players did not perform. Henslowe's Diary ... as a Blog! will thus return on the 6th. 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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