10 May, 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: 10 | tt at womon hard to plesse | 00 | 17 

In  modern English: 10^th [May, 1597] ... total at Woman Hard to Please ... 17 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.

After a couple of disastrous performances, the company has waited three and a half weeks to bring back A Woman Hard to Please. This appears to have had some success in improving the box office, although it remains low. 

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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