26 February, 1596 - The Seven Days of the Week

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

Henslowe writes: y^e 25 of febreary 1595 ... R at wecke ... xx^s 

In modern English: [26^th] February, [1596] ... Received at Week ... 20 shillings

Today, the Admiral's Men revived a play that Henslowe lists simply as Week. It's not clear whether this play is the original Seven Days of the Week, which you can read about in the entry for 3 June, 1595, or whether it is The Second Week, an apparent sequel that you can read about in the entry for 23 January.

19th-century Italian bracelet illustrating each of the seven days of
the week with a portrait of the deity associated with it.
From the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 

Whether it was the original or the sequel, the company has waited a month to attempt restaging a Week play, and the box office remains low.

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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