The Spanish Friar; or, The Double Discovery (1681)

Author
John Dryden
Work Type
Mainpiece
Genre
Tragicomedy
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
£7,361 3s £4,535 16s 6d (61.6%) £2,825 6s 6d (38.4%)
1732 - 1809
£7,361 3s - (100%) £4,535 16s 6d (61.6%) £2,825 6s 6d (38.4%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
121 73 48
1732 - 1809
121 73 48
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
27 Oct 1755 Covent Garden The Spanish Fryar Or The Double Discovery, The School Boy No No No Unknown N/A N/A
23 Oct 1756 Covent Garden The Spanish Fryar Or The Double Discovery, Harlequin Skeleton No No No Unknown N/A N/A
04 Dec 1756 Covent Garden The Spanish Fryar, Orpheus and Eurydice No No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Jan 1757 Covent Garden The Spanish Fryar, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Feb 1757 Drury Lane The Spanish Fryar Or The Double Discovery, The Author No No Yes £200 N/A N/A
26 Feb 1757 Drury Lane The Spanish Fryar, The Author, The Millers No No No £160 N/A N/A
01 Dec 1757 Covent Garden The Spanish Fryar Or The Double Discovery, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No £74 19s 27% N/A
03 Dec 1757 Covent Garden The Spanish Fryar, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No £83 5s 29% N/A
09 Jan 1758 Covent Garden The Spanish Fryar, A Duke and no Duke, The Judgment of Paris, The Italian Peasants No No No £86 15s 35% N/A
01 Feb 1758 Drury Lane The Spanish Fryar Or The Double Discovery, The Author No No No £150 44% N/A
29 Apr 1758 Covent Garden The Spanish Fryar, Catherine and Petruchio, Country Lass, Comic Ballet No No Yes £149 6s 6d N/A N/A
07 Nov 1758 Covent Garden The Spanish Fryar Or The Double Discovery, The Contrivances, The Threshers No No No £38 10s 6d 26% N/A
14 Nov 1758 Drury Lane The Spanish Fryar Or The Double Discovery, The Diversions of the Morning, Spanish Dance, The Swiss No No No £138 19s 61% N/A
26 Mar 1759 Covent Garden The Spanish Fryar, The Comical Resentment or Trick for Trick, The Threshers No No Yes £273 7s 6d N/A N/A
16 May 1759 Covent Garden The Spanish Fryar, A Duke and no Duke, Tambourine, Hornpipe, Minuet, The Prussian Rope Makers No No Yes £124 10s N/A N/A
28 Feb 1760 Covent Garden The Spanish Fryar, The Fair No No No £163 2s N/A N/A
05 Mar 1761 Covent Garden The Spanish Fryar Or The Double Discovery, The Rape of Proserpine No No No £156 17s N/A N/A
11 Apr 1761 Covent Garden The Spanish Fryar, The Chaplet, Hornpipe, The Waggoners No No Yes £204 4s N/A N/A
11 May 1761 Drury Lane The Spanish Fryar, The Chaplet, Sing All Ye Muses No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
13 May 1761 Covent Garden The Spanish Fryar, Flora, New Comic Dance No No Yes £232 19s N/A N/A
03 Oct 1761 Covent Garden The Spanish Fryar Or The Double Discovery, Lethe, The Pedlar Tricked No No No £86 15s 6d N/A N/A
01 Mar 1762 Covent Garden The Spanish Fryar, Apollo and Daphne No No No Unknown N/A N/A
17 Nov 1762 Drury Lane The Spanish Fryar Or The Double Discovery, The Genii No No No Unknown N/A N/A
24 Nov 1762 Drury Lane The Spanish Fryar, The Witches No No No Unknown N/A N/A
14 Jan 1763 Covent Garden The Spanish Fryar, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
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