27 April, 1596 - The New World's Tragedy

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

Henslowe writes: y^e 27 of ap^rell 1596 ... R at the new worldes tragedy ... xxix^s 

In modern English: 27^th April, 1596 ... Received at The New World's Tragedy ... 29 shillings

Walter Raleigh attacking Trinidad, by
Theodore de Bry (1595)

Today, the Admiral's Men revived their lost play The New World's Tragedy, which may have been about a calamitous event in the Americas. You can read more about this play in the entry for 17 September.

It's been three months since the company last staged The New World's Tragedy, and today's revival has been a lot more successful than the recent revivals of some other old plays, with a box office that meets the average for the Rose.

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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