2 May, 1597 - A French Comedy

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

Henslowe writes: Maye 1597 | 2 | tt at frenshe comodey ...  | 01 | 00

In modern English: 2 May, 1597 ... total at French Comedy ... £1 [i.e. 20 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 Admiral's Men must be cursing their ill luck: yesterday's May Day holiday fell on a Sunday when they weren't allowed to perform. Today's staging of A French Comedy is thus just another day in May, and the box office is gradually shrinking. 

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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