26 April, 1597 - A French Comedy

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

Henslowe writes: 22 | tt at frenshe comodey ...  | 01 | 02

In modern English: 26^th [April, 1597] | total at French Comedy |  £1 and 2 shillings [i.e. 22 shillings]

Antoine Watteau, Actors of the
Comédie-Française (1710s)

Today, the Admiral's Men performed A French Comedy, a lost play. You can read more about this play in the entry for 18 April.

The company is pushing their new comedy hard, with three performances in just over a week. Today's box office is not especially high, but it remains the same as last time, so the play is not in decline yet. 

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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