7 March, 1597 - A Woman Hard to Please

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

Henslowe writes: 7 | tt at a womon hard to pleasse ... | 01 | 05 

In modern English: 7^th [March, 1597] ... total at A Woman Hard to Please ... £1 and 5 shillings [i.e. 25 shillings]

A woman looks deeply unimpressed by her
rescuer in Paolo Uccello's St George and
the Dragon (c.1470)

Today the the Admiral's Men have revived their enigmatic lost play, A Woman Hard to Please. You can read more  this play in the entry for 27 January.

Before their recent short break, the Admiral's Men had been staging A Woman Hard to Please more frequently than any other play, showing great confidence in it. Today's performance is a little disappointing though, filling the Rose to less than half capacity.  

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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