Henslowe writes: 04 | tt at womon hard to pleasse ... | 01 | 08
In modern English: 4th [February, 1597] ... total at Woman Hard to Please ... £1 and 8 shillings [i.e. 28 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) |
Once again, the company has brought back A Woman Hard to Please extremely quickly. They are clearly convinced that people really want to see it. And they're not wrong; though the box office isn't stunning in the general scheme of things, it's better than most other plays are doing at the moment.
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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