12 June, 1596 - Dr Faustus

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

Henslowe writes: y^e 12 of June 1596 ... R at doctor fostes... xvij^s

In modern English: 12^th June, 1596 ... Received at Doctor Faustus ... 17shillings

Faustus summoning Mephistopheles: from the
1616 text of the play 

Today, the Admiral's Men revived Dr Faustus, Christopher Marlowe's famous tragedy about a scholar who sells his soul to the devil. You can read more about it in the entry for 2 October.

The company has waited over a month to return Dr Faustus to the stage. But London's theatregoers do not appear to have been missing this old and shopworn play.

What's next?

There will be no blog entry tomorrow because 13 June was a Sunday in 1596 and the players did not perform. Henslowe's Diary ... as a Blog! will thus return on the 14th. 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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