4 June, 1597 - A Humorous Day's Mirth

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

Henslowe writes: 4 | tt at the comodey of vmers... 03 | 06

In modern English: 4^th [June, 1597] ... total at The Comedy of Humours ... £3 and 6 shillings [i.e. 66 shillings]

Today, the Admiral's Men revived their 

A classic image of a
melancholic, from
Robert Burton's Anatomy
of Melancholy (1622)

Comedy of Humours, which is almost certainly another name for George Chapman's A Humorous Day's Mirth. You can read more about this eccentric comedy in the entry for 11 May. 

A Humorous Day's Mirth is unstoppable! Against all precedent, the box office continues to rise and rise, for the fifth show in a row. The Rose is packed again, and Henslowe must be wondering whether to chuck out all the other plays and just stage this one every day.  

What's next?

There will be no blog entry tomorrow because 5 June was a Sunday in 1597 and the players did not perform. Henslowe's Diary ... as a Blog! will thus return on the 6th - 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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