The People - James Wild

Gender
Man
Start
1749 (b.)
End
10 Aug 1801 (d.)
Country of Birth
Not known
Locality
Not known
Bio
BD Vol. 16: 81-83
Links

Works (5 Results)

Title Year Type Role
The Miser 1733 Mainpiece Author
Poluscenicon 1789 Afterpiece Author
Harlequin's Chaplet 1789 Afterpiece Author
Harlequin and Faustus; or, The Devil will have His Own 1793 Afterpiece Author
Harlequin and Oberon; or, The Chase to Gretna 1796 Afterpiece Author

Activities (2 Results)

Theatre Activity
Covent Garden Actor, Prompter

Benefits (Employee/Tickets) (37 Results)

Date Theatre Title Mainpiece Title After Piece(s) Door receipts Tickets Total Charges Ticket Count Type
15 May 1766 Covent Garden The Albion Queens Midas Unknown Unknown Unknown N/A Unknown Sh
18 May 1767 Covent Garden The Way of the World The Dragon of Wantley, Pantomime Ballet, Wapping Landlady £80 17s 6d £128 3s £209 6d N/A 959 T
27 May 1768 Covent Garden The Inconstant; or, The Way to Win Him The Royal Chace; or, Merlin's Cave, Minuet, Comic Dance £27 19s £118 13s £146 12s N/A 836 T
06 May 1769 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphosed, Minuet £38 11s 6d £96 18s £135 9s 6d N/A 706 T
18 May 1770 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke for a Wife The Chaplet £13 2s £252 6s £265 8s N/A 1808 T
28 May 1771 Covent Garden Romeo and Juliet The Commissary, Wapping Landlady, Double Hornpipe Unknown Unknown Unknown N/A Unknown Sh
25 May 1772 Covent Garden Cato The Englishman in Paris, Ellen a Roon, The Old Ground Young £48 4s 6d £141 13s £189 17s 6d £64 1053 Sh
24 May 1773 Covent Garden The Merchant of Venice The Country Madcap in London, Hornpipe £46 15s £132 14s £179 9s £64 1007 Sh
16 May 1774 Covent Garden Don Sebastian, King of Portugal The Dragon of Wantley, Minuet £27 12s 6d £143 4s £170 16s 6d £64 1082 Sh
15 May 1775 Covent Garden Theodosius; or, The Force of Love St Patrick's Day; or, The Scheming Lieutenant, Minuet Unknown Unknown Unknown N/A Unknown Sh
06 May 1776 Covent Garden Amphitryon; or, The Two Sosias Midas, The Humours of the Newmarket Races Unknown Unknown Unknown N/A Unknown Sh
05 May 1777 Covent Garden The Rival Queens; or The Death of Alexander the Great The Device; or, The Marriage Office, The Humours of the Newmarket Races, A Welcome to the Spring £126 6d £130 13s £256 13s 6d £72 800 Sh
11 May 1778 Covent Garden Henry V Poor Vulcan!, The Cottage on The Lawn, The Sailors Revels at Portsmouth; or British Glory £146 1s £78 17s £224 18s £72 503
03 May 1779 Covent Garden Illumination; or, The Glaziers' Conspiracy Oroonoko, Chrononhotonthologos, The Humours of the Newmarket Races, The Poney Races Unknown Unknown Unknown N/A Unknown
01 May 1780 Covent Garden Tamerlane Fete, The Elders, To thee O Gentle Sleep £178 13s £90 1s £268 14s £105 554
07 May 1781 Covent Garden The Farmer's Return from London All for Love; or, The World Well Lost, Entertainment, The Royal Chace; or, Merlin's Cave, The Huntsman's Street Halloo, The Early Horn, When Phoebus the Top of the Hills Does Adorn £210 14s £77 15s £288 9s £105 466
06 May 1782 Covent Garden The Count of Narbonne Fete, The What D'Ye Call It £174 15s 6d £100 8s £275 3s 6d £105 588
19 May 1783 Covent Garden The Winter's Tale Fete, Coalition £222 9s 6d £81 12s £304 1s 6d £105 489
17 May 1784 Covent Garden The Prophetess; or, The History of Dioclesian A Jubilee In Commemoration Of Handel, The Election, Smiling Dawn, Collins' Ode on the Passions, From the Dread Scene, Revenge! Timotheus, Mirth Admit Me of the Crew, As when the Dove £58 1s £57 12s £115 13s £105 373
10 Jun 1784 Covent Garden The Merchant of Venice Comus (1772), Sweet Echo Unknown Unknown Unknown N/A Unknown
11 May 1785 Covent Garden Rule a Wife and Have a Wife The Lawyer's Panic; or, Westminster Hall in an Uproar, Three Weeks After Marriage Unknown Unknown Unknown N/A Unknown
22 May 1786 Covent Garden The Chapter of Accidents An Harmonic Festival, The Deserter £106 16s £75 15s £182 11s £105 486
21 May 1787 Covent Garden Rose and Colin The Winter's Tale, The Cantabs, Come Come My Good Shepherds, Four and Twenty Fiddlers All on a Row £120 14s 6d £102 2s £222 16s 6d N/A 611
12 May 1788 Covent Garden Unknown Drama Tit for Tat, The Nunnery, The Royal Chace; or, Merlin's Cave, Oh Say Bonny Lass Will You Carry a Wallet £118 5s 6d £106 15s £225 6d N/A 626
08 Jun 1789 Covent Garden Marian Werter, Poluscenicon, Four and Twenty Fiddlers All on a Row, Epithalamium £158 9s 6d £105 10s £263 19s 6d N/A 626
24 May 1790 Covent Garden All for Love; or, The World Well Lost An Harmonic Festival, Rosina, Nicketerotion at the Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra, Grand Dance £158 17s £115 15s £274 12s N/A 688
06 Jun 1791 Covent Garden Double Falsehood; or, The Distressed Lovers Tippo Saib; or, British Valour in India, Barnaby Brittle; or, A Wife at her Wit's End, Battle Dance, Hark! The Lark At Heav'n's Gate Sings, Black-Eyed Susan, Fond Echo Forbear Thy Fond Sigh, Indian War Song, Poor Orra Tink on Yanco Dear, The Gallant Soldier Born to Arms, The Tobacco Box £55 1s £133 14s £188 15s N/A 865
28 May 1792 Covent Garden Inkle and Yarico The Irishman in London; or, The Happy African, Wapping Landlady, If You Travel the Wide World All Over: A Planxty, Descriptive of Ireland, Black-Eyed Susan, Can a Lover Pleasure Find, Sweet Bird £234 18s £150 15s £385 13s £105 866
27 May 1793 Covent Garden Every One Has His Fault The Pad, The Shipwreck; or, French Ingratitude, Captivity, Black-Eyed Susan, Farewell To Old England, Dear Mary Adieu £182 5s 6d £146 17s £329 2s 6d N/A Unknown
26 May 1794 Covent Garden Don Sebastian, King of Portugal The New Divertisement, The Shipwreck; or, French Ingratitude, Solo on union pipes, Duetto on the union pipes and harp £126 19s 6d £166 3s £293 2s 6d N/A 778
25 May 1795 Covent Garden How to Grow Rich British Fortitude and Hibernian Friendship; or, An Escape from France, Harlequin and Faustus; or, The Devil will have His Own, The Storm, At Dawn Of Life Our Vows Were Plighted, Four and Twenty Fiddlers All on a Row, I was Called Knowing Joey, Our Simple Tale Thus Ended, Thursday in the Morn the Nineteenth of May, The Turban'd Turk Who Scorns The World, To be Sure I Don't Love in My Heart, When Foaming Waves Contrary Beat £144 14s 6d £161 4s £305 18s 6d N/A 769
16 May 1796 Covent Garden The Deserted Daughter A Melocosmiotes, Oscar and Malvina; or, The Hall of Fingal, The Sea Storm, Come Every Jovial Fellow, I Am a Jolly Gay Pedlar, O Ever in My Bosom Live £190 19s £203 14s £394 13s N/A 943
22 May 1797 Covent Garden The School for Wives The Village Fete, Oscar and Malvina; or, The Hall of Fingal, The Sea Storm, Imitations, Black-Eyed Susan, Cease Rude Boreas Blust'ring Railer, Come Every Jovial Fellow, O Ever in My Bosom Live £176 £150 6d £326 6d N/A 690
28 May 1798 Covent Garden Such Things Are Starboard Watch, Harlequin and Faustus; or, The Devil will have His Own, The High Mettled Racer, Performances on the Slack Rope, Patents All the Rage, The Beggar, The Wind Blew Fresh and Fair £134 19s £153 19s £288 18s N/A 730
13 May 1799 Covent Garden Inkle and Yarico An Egeirophadron, Harlequin's Chaplet, Negro Dance, Black-Eyed Susan £222 2s 6d £177 17s £399 19s 6d N/A 824
02 Jun 1800 Covent Garden Fashionable Levities A Whitsun Festival, Five Thousand a Year, Don Juan; or, The Libertine Destroyed, The Battle Song £151 4s 6d £135 15s 6d £287 N/A 610
25 May 1801 Covent Garden Unknown Drama Ramah Droog; or Wine does Wonders, Henry and Emma; or, The Nut Brown Maid, The Prisoner at Large £160 4s £182 6s £342 10s N/A 781
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