25 June, 1597 - Belin Dun

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

Henslowe writes: 25 | tt at bellendon | 00 | 07

In modern English: 25^th [June, 1597] ... total at Belin Dun ... 7 shillings

A highwayman portrayed in Richard

Head's The English Rogue (1666)

Today, the Admiral's Men performed Belin Dun, their lost play about the notorious robber who terrorized the highways around Dunstable during the reign of King Henry I; you can read more about this play in the entry for 10 June, 1594.

The company has brought back Belin Dun more quickly than usual, waiting only a week and a half to return this venerable play to the stage. The box office is wretched, though.

What's next?

There will be no blog entry tomorrow because 26 June was a Sunday in 1597 and the players did not perform. Henslowe's Diary ... as a Blog! will thus return on the 27th, 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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