21 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: 21 | tt at frenshe comodey ...  | 00 | 14

In modern English: 21^st [May, 1597] ... total at French Comedy ... 14 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.

Following its debut in mid-April, the company had been staging A French Comedy more frequently than any other play, often more than once a week. However, they have now given it a break for over a fortnight. Perhaps surprisingly, the box office has dropped considerably.

What's next?

There will be no blog entry tomorrow, because 23 May was a Sunday in 1597 and the players did not perform. Henslowe's Diary ... as a Blog! will thus return on the 24th, for a week that will include a new play. 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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