Jerusalem

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Historical Records

Performance Records (Henslowe's "diary")

Two records of performance survive in Henslowe’s accounts for early 1592:

Fol. 7 (Greg I, 13)

							Res at (Q) Jerusallem the 22 of marche 1591	......................	xviijs

Fol. 7 ^v (Greg I, 14)

							Res at Jerusalem the 25 of aprell 1592	..................................	xxxxvjs

Theatrical Provenance

"Jerusalem" was the eighteenth of twenty-four plays performed by Lord Strange's men at the Rose from February to June, 1593. It was introduced in the fifth week of their run.

Probable Genre(s)

Harbage, basing his choice apparently on a scholarly tradition of association with the literature of the crusades, suggests that "Jerusalem" was an historical romance. Wiggins, Catalogue #892, also linking the play with source material from the crusades, abbreviates the generic label to "romance."