5 March, 1597 - Alexander and Lodowick

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

Henslowe writes: 5 | tt at elexsander & lodwicke ... | 01 | 15 

In modern English: 5^th [March, 1597] ... total at Alexander and Lodowick ... £1 and 15 shillings [i.e. 35 shillings]

A very generic illustration accompanying the
printed text of the ballad of The Two Faithful
Friends: The Pleasant History of Alexander
and Lodowick

Today, the Admiral's Men have revived Alexander and Lodowick, a lost play about two friends who swap places. You can read more about this play in the entry for 14 January.

Alexander and Lodowick continues to be very successful; the playhouse is more than half full; the audience is much more enthusiastic today than they were when the Rose re-opened a couple of days ago.

What's next?

There will be no blog entry tomorrow because 6 March was a Sunday in 1597 and the players did not perform. Henslowe's Diary ... as a Blog! will thus return on the 7th. 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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