8 March, 1597 - Hieronimo

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

Henslowe writes: 8 | tt at JoRonymo ... | 01 | 01

In modern English: 8^th [March, 1597] ... total at Hieronimo ... £1 and 1 shilling [i.e. 21 shillings] 

Woodcut from the 1615 edition of The Spanish Tragedy.

Today, the Admiral's Men revived Hieronimo, which is almost certainly an alternate title for Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, a famous and much-loved old play about the revenge of a grieving father for his son's death. You can read more about this play in the entry for 14th March, 1592.

The box office for this play is going up and down quite a bit, but hovering around the twenty shilling mark, which indicates a playhouse 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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