right in the interpretation of some very disputable figures, shows an expenditure at the average rate of 31s. a day during the six months from 24 January to 28 July 1597, of which, however, nearly half was in fact incurred during the first twenty-four days of the period. In this case only the sums and not the purposes for which they were advanced are entered.[1]
During the three years the Admiral's men produced new plays to the total number of fifty-five, and at the average rate of one a fortnight. The productions were not at regular intervals, and often followed each other in successive weeks. There is, however, no example of two new productions in the same week.[2] These are the names and dates of the new plays:
Belin Dun (10 June 1594).
Galiaso (28 June 1594).
Philipo and Hippolito (9 July 1594).
2 Godfrey of Bulloigne (19 July 1594).
The Merchant of Emden (30 July 1594).
Tasso's Melancholy (13 Aug. 1594).
The Venetian Comedy (27 Aug. 1594).
Palamon and Arcite (18 Sept. 1594).
The Love of an English Lady (26 Sept. 1594).
A Knack to Know an Honest Man (23 Oct. 1594).
1 Caesar and Pompey (8 Nov. 1594).
Diocletian (16 Nov. 1594).
The Wise Man of West Chester (3 Dec. 1594).
The Set at Maw (15 Dec. 1594).
The French Comedy (11 Feb. 1595).
The Mack (21 Feb. 1595).
Olympo (5 Mar. 1595).[3]
1 Hercules (7 May 1595).
frome hence lycensed';
cf. my criticism in M. L. R. iv. 408.]
- ↑ Henslowe, i. 51; cf. Dr. Greg's explanation in ii. 129 and my criticism in M. L. R. iv. 409. Wallace (E. S. xliii. 361) has a third explanation, that the figures represent the sharers' takings. But (a) these would not all pass through Henslowe's hands, (b) the amounts are often less than half the galleries, and (c) the columns are blank for some days of playing.
- ↑ I include Belin Dun, produced just before the separation of the Admiral's and the Chamberlain's, in the fifty-five; but I do not follow Dr. Greg in taking the sign 'j', which Henslowe attaches to Tamburlaine (30 Aug. 1594) and Long Meg of Westminster (14 Feb. 1595) as equivalent to 'ne'. Were it so, these would furnish two, and the only two, examples of a second new production in a single week. Probably 'j' indicates in both instances the First Part of a two-part play. This view is confirmed by Henslowe's note on 10 March 1595, '17 p[laies
- ↑ Variously entered as 'olimpo', 'seleo & olempo', 'olempeo & hen-*genyo',
&c.; but apparently only one play is meant.
