1 June, 1597 - A French Comedy

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

Henslowe writes: June 15 | 97 | 1 | tt at frenshe comodey ...  | 00 | 13

In modern English: 1^st June, 1597 ... total at French Comedy ... 13 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 has waited a week and a half to return A French Comedy to the stage, and the box office remains almost unchanged at a not very impressive level. 

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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