17 October, 1595 - The Disguises

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

Henslowe writes: y^e 16 of octobȝ 1595 ... R at the desgyses ... x^s 

In modern English: [17^th] October, 1595 ... Received at The Disguises ... 10 shillings

Lorenzo Lippi, Woman with a Mask
(The Allegory of Deception), 1650

Today, the company revived The Disguises, a lost play about... disguises. You can read more about it in the entry for 2 October.

This is the third performance of this new comedy, and its box office is nothing short of disastrous. The Disguises seems to have entirely turned off the Rose audience. What went wrong?

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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