7 February, 1596 - 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 7 of febreary 1595 ... R at crack me this nvtt ... xix^s


In modern English: 7^th February, [1596] ... Received at Crack Me This Nut ... 19 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.

The company has waited three weeks to revive Crack Me This Nut. Today's box office continues to be unspectacular, but it is still  remaining a reliable potboiler.

What's next?

There will be no blog entry tomorrow because 8 February was a Sunday in 1596 and the players did not perform. Henslowe's Diary ... as a Blog! will thus return on the 9th 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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