16 April, 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: 16 | tt at womon hard to please | 00 | 05 

In  modern English: 16^th [April, 1597] ... total at Woman Hard to Please ... 5 shillings

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

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.

The company has waited only a week to bring back A Woman Hard to Please despite its tiny audience last time. Yet today's audience is exactly the same size. It may be time to ease up on staging this play.

What's next?

There will be no blog entry tomorrow because 17 April was a Sunday in 1597 and the players did not perform. Henslowe's Diary ... as a Blog! will thus return on the 18th. 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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