Henslowe writes: 23 | tt at gvido | 00 | 16
In modern English: 23rd [April, 1597] ... total at Guido ... 16 shillings
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| Guido Cavalcanti, one of the possible subjects of this play, in a painting by Cristofano dell'Altissimo |
Today, for the last time, the Admiral's Men performed Guido, an enigmatic lost play that might have been about the poet Guido Cavalcanti. You can read more about this play in the entry for 19 March.
This is a surprise: Guido's appearance today is its last one in the Diary, after only five performances. The play had been returning solid box office, but the Admiral's Men have ignored it for nearly three weeks, and today's audience is smaller. Many other plays have done far worse, but for some reason the company will decide that this one is not worth their time. Farewell Guido, we hardly knew you!
What's next?
There will be no blog entry tomorrow because 24 April was a Sunday in 1597 and the players did not perform. Henslowe's Diary ... as a Blog! will thus return on the 25th - 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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