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
£4,822 13s £1,505 2s 6d (31.2%) £3,317 10s 6d (68.8%)
1732 - 1809
£4,822 13s - (100%) £1,505 2s 6d (31.2%) £3,317 10s 6d (68.8%)
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 %
28 Jan 1735 Covent Garden The Plain Dealer, The Rape of Proserpine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
08 Dec 1735 Covent Garden The Plain Dealer, The Rape of Proserpine No No No £53 4s 6d N/A N/A
27 Feb 1736 Covent Garden The Plain Dealer, The Royal Chace No No No £81 13s 6d N/A N/A
06 May 1736 Covent Garden The Plain Dealer, Flora's Hollday or The Shepherds Welcome to the Spring, Tambourine, French Peasants, Harlequine No No Yes £120 N/A N/A
26 Apr 1737 Covent Garden The Plain Dealer, The Contrivances, Two Pierrots, Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
14 Jan 1738 Drury Lane The Plain Dealer, The Fall of Phaeton No No No Unknown N/A N/A
16 Jan 1738 Drury Lane The Plain Dealer, The Fall of Phaeton No No No Unknown N/A N/A
17 Jan 1738 Drury Lane The Plain Dealer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Jan 1738 Drury Lane The Plain Dealer, The King and the Miller of Mansfield No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Jan 1738 Drury Lane The Plain Dealer, The Devil to Pay, Flanderkins, Ballet Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
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