18 June, 1597 - Frederick and Basilea

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

Henslowe writes:  18 | tt at fredericke & basilia ... | 00 | 11

In modern English: 18^th [June, 1597] ... total at Frederick and Basilea ... 11 shillings

Detail from The Reception of the Ambassadors
in Damascus (anonymous, 1511)

Today, the Admiral's Men revived Frederick and Basilea, a lost play that survives only as a 'plot': a list of entrances used to help the actors keep on track. You can read more about this play in the entry for 3 June.

The company has not exactly rushed this play back for its third performance and the box office is dismal. They must already have little confidence in it by this point.

What's next?

There will be no blog entry tomorrow because 19 June was a Sunday in 1597 and the players did not perform. Henslowe's Diary ... as a Blog! will thus return on the 20th - 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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