Henslowe writes: ffebreary 1597 | 01 | tt at womones hard to pleasse ... | 01 | 05
In modern English: 1st February, 1597 ... total at Woman's Hard to Please ... £1 and 5 shillings [i.e. 25 shillings]
Today, the Admiral's Men revived their enigmatic lost play A Woman Hard to Please. You can read more about this play in the entry for 27 January.
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| A woman looks deeply unimpressed by her rescuer in Paolo Uccello's St George and the Dragon (c.1470) |
The company is pushing this play hard, having now staged it three times in less than a week. Today's box office has weakened considerably now, and the Rose is less than half full.
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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