The Plain Dealer (1676)

Author
William Wycherley
Author
Isaac Bickerstaffe (1765)
Author
John Philip Kemble (1796)
Author
Molière
Work Type
Mainpiece
Genre
Comedy
Performance Medium
Spoken Drama
Associated work receipts The physical apparatus employed on and around the stage to support, enhance and sometimes substitute the performers' enactment of drama.
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
£3,451 6s £756 10s 6d (21.9%) £2,694 15s 6d (78.1%)
1732 - 1809
£3,451 6s - (100%) £756 10s 6d (21.9%) £2,694 15s 6d (78.1%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
84 20 64
1732 - 1809
84 20 64
Notes
Based on Molière's Le Misanthrope (1666).
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
15 Jan 1733 Covent Garden The Plain Dealer, Two Pierrots, Fingalians, Saraband No No No £101 5s N/A N/A
16 Jan 1733 Covent Garden The Plain Dealer, Tambourine, New Scotch Dance No No No £52 2s 6d N/A N/A
17 Jan 1733 Covent Garden The Plain Dealer, Tambourine, Scotch Dance No No No £50 12s N/A N/A
29 Jan 1733 Covent Garden The Plain Dealer, New Comic Dance, Scottish Dance, Tambourine No No No £64 2s N/A N/A
20 Apr 1733 Covent Garden The Plain Dealer, The Stage Coach, Se Larco Avesso Strali, Tollet's Ground, Scottish Dance, Tambourine No No Yes £180 17s N/A N/A
23 May 1733 Covent Garden The Plain Dealer, Tambourine, Peasant, Scottish Dance No No Yes £147 13s 6d N/A N/A
21 Nov 1733 Covent Garden The Plain Dealer, Le Nassau No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Feb 1734 Covent Garden The Plain Dealer, French Sailor and his Lass, Pigmalion No No No Unknown N/A N/A
19 Apr 1734 Covent Garden The Plain Dealer, Scots Dance, The Black and White Joke, English Maggot, Hippisley's Drunken Man, Shepherd and Shepherdess, The Kilkenny Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
18 Oct 1734 Covent Garden The Plain Dealer, The Mock Doctor, Tambourine, Scot's Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
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