12 July, 1596 - Troy

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

Henslowe writes: y^e 7 of July 1596 ... R at troye ... xxix^s 

In modern English: [12^th] July, 1596 ... Received at Troy ... 29 shillings

The sacking of Troy, from the title page of Thomas
Heywood's The Second Part of the Iron Age (c.1613)

Today, the Admiral's Men restaged Troy, their play about the Trojan War. You can read more about this play in the entry for 25 June.

The third performance of Troy is a small improvement on the previous one, and is close to 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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