8 May, 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 maye 1596 ... R at cracke me this nvtte ... xvij^s

In modern English: [8^th] May, 1596 ... Received at Crack Me This Nut ... 17 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 not performed Crack Me This Nut since February. As with a lot of the recent revivals, the box office suggests no great excitement or enthusiasm about its return.

What's next?

There will be no blog entry tomorrow because 9 May was a Sunday in 1596 and the players did not perform. Henslowe's Diary ... as a Blog! will thus return on the 10th 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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