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 %
11 Jan 1776 Drury Lane The Plain Dealer, The Jubilee No No No £162 16s N/A N/A
03 May 1776 Drury Lane The Plain Dealer, A Peep behind the Curtain, Grand Chaconne No No Yes £25 17s 6d N/A N/A
15 May 1779 Drury Lane The Plain Dealer, The Quaker, Tally Ho! No No Yes £120 1s 6d N/A N/A
09 Oct 1779 Drury Lane The Plain Dealer, Belphegor or The Wishes No No No £170 7s 6d 100% N/A
28 Oct 1779 Drury Lane The Plain Dealer, The Wonders Of Derbyshire No No No £160 2s 6d 100% N/A
08 Feb 1780 Drury Lane The Plain Dealer, Fortunatus No No No £132 16s 6d 33% N/A
12 Dec 1783 Drury Lane The Plain Dealer, The Ladies' Frolick No No No £85 11s 30% N/A
18 Apr 1786 Covent Garden The Plain Dealer, Duke and No Duke, Hogarth's March to Finchley, Four and Twenty Fidlers All on a Row No No Yes £353 72% N/A
25 May 1786 Covent Garden The Plain Dealer, The Poor Soldier No No Yes £300 12s 6d 58% N/A
01 Jun 1787 Drury Lane The Plain Dealer, The Deserter, The Capricious Lovers, The Scheming Jockey and Fortune Teller No No Yes £241 8s 6d 17% N/A
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