The Anatomist; or, The Sham Doctor (1696)

Author
Edward Ravenscroft (1743)
Author
Noël Lebreton de Hauteroche
Work Type
Afterpiece
Genre
Farce
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
£35,229 7s £343 10s 6d (1%) £34,885 16s 6d (99%)
1732 - 1809
£35,229 7s - (100%) £343 10s 6d (1%) £34,885 16s 6d (99%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
268 3 265
1732 - 1809
268 3 265
Notes
The original mainpiece was performed first in 1696 and after being performed at Lincoln's Inn Fields for some years, it came to Covent Garden. The farce was shortened to an afterpiece in 1743; based on Noël le Breton de Hauteroche's 'Crispin médecin' (1680),
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
09 Oct 1756 Drury Lane Romeo And Juliet, The Anatomist No No No £226 100% N/A
28 Oct 1756 Drury Lane King Lear, The Anatomist No No No £200 N/A N/A
16 Nov 1756 Drury Lane Romeo And Juliet, The Anatomist No No No £180 N/A N/A
24 Nov 1756 Drury Lane Comus, The Anatomist No No No £150 N/A N/A
02 Feb 1757 Drury Lane The Wonder, The Anatomist Yes No No £190 N/A N/A
10 Sep 1757 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Anatomist No No No £160 100% N/A
01 Oct 1757 Drury Lane Romeo And Juliet, The Anatomist No No No £150 100% N/A
03 Nov 1757 Drury Lane The Suspicious Husband, The Anatomist, The Italian Peasants Yes No No £150 70% N/A
10 Nov 1757 Drury Lane King Lear, The Anatomist No No No £210 73% N/A
24 Nov 1757 Drury Lane Romeo And Juliet, The Anatomist No No No £200 65% N/A
27 Jan 1758 Drury Lane The Alchemist, The Anatomist, The Prussian Camp No No No £180 62% N/A
09 May 1758 Drury Lane King Henry VIII, The Anatomist, Hornpipe No No Yes £170 N/A N/A
16 Sep 1758 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Anatomist, The German Hunters No No No £128 15s 100% N/A
03 Oct 1758 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Anatomist No No No £174 3s 6d 100% N/A
02 Nov 1758 Drury Lane Jane Shore, The Anatomist, The Swiss No No No £138 18s 79% N/A
16 Nov 1758 Drury Lane The Rehearsal, The Anatomist, The Swiss Yes No No £202 9s 73% N/A
02 Dec 1758 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Anatomist, The Swiss No No No £204 10s 6d 60% N/A
29 Sep 1759 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Anatomist No No No £210 100% N/A
10 Nov 1759 Drury Lane King Lear, The Anatomist No No No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Dec 1759 Drury Lane Oroonoko, The Anatomist No No No £180 66% N/A
13 Mar 1760 Drury Lane The Rehearsal, The Anatomist, The Cow Keepers Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Apr 1771 Drury Lane The Tempest, The Anatomist or The Sham Doctor No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
22 Apr 1771 Drury Lane The Jealous Wife, The Anatomist, The European in America, Allemandes, Cotillions, Minuets, Rigadoon, The Amusements of Strasburg, The Ball No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
01 May 1771 Drury Lane Tancred And Sigismunda, The Anatomist, Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
06 May 1771 Drury Lane Douglas, The Anatomist, Comic Dance, Burlesque Cantata No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
17 Oct 1771 Drury Lane Much Ado About Nothing, The Anatomist or the Sham Doctor No No No £244 8s 69% N/A
10 Mar 1772 Drury Lane The Suspicious Husband, The Anatomist No No No £260 9s 63% N/A
05 Jun 1772 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Anatomist, The Sailors' Revels, Bucks Have at Ye All No No Yes £244 10s 100% N/A
27 Feb 1773 Drury Lane Alonzo, The Anatomist No No No £237 11s 6d 60% N/A
05 Jan 1774 Drury Lane The School For Wives, The Anatomist No No No £219 14s 6d 47% N/A
13 Jan 1774 Drury Lane The Wonder, The Anatomist No No No £255 12s 6d 53% N/A
27 Sep 1774 Drury Lane Cymbeline, The Meeting of the Company, The Anatomist, The Sailors' Revels No No No £240 15s 6d 100% N/A
15 Oct 1774 Drury Lane Electra, The Anatomist No No No £243 17s 6d N/A N/A
20 Dec 1774 Drury Lane The Choleric Man, The Anatomist, The Grand Provencalle Dance No No No £124 8s N/A N/A
17 Feb 1775 Drury Lane Braganza, The Anatomist No No No £250 9s 6d N/A N/A
03 Jun 1776 Drury Lane King Richard III, The Anatomist or The Sham Doctor No No No £284 10s 100% N/A
18 Mar 1779 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, A Monody, The Anatomist or Sham Doctor No No No £267 4s N/A N/A
21 Dec 1786 Covent Garden Eloisa, The Anatomist or The Sham Doctor, The Piping Pedlar No No No £119 8s 6d 35% N/A
23 Dec 1786 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Anatomist, Hornpipe No No No £157 13s 6d 49% N/A
25 Jan 1791 Drury Lane The Siege Of Belgrade, The Anatomist or The Sham Doctor No No No £306 10s 6d 56% N/A
04 Feb 1791 Drury Lane The Siege Of Belgrade, The Anatomist No No No £255 9s 58% N/A
10 Feb 1791 Drury Lane The Siege Of Belgrade, The Anatomist No No No £204 6s 6d 51% N/A
02 Dec 1801 Drury Lane Pizarro, The Anatomist; or, The Sham Doctor No No No £225 14s 48% N/A
08 Dec 1801 Drury Lane Artaxerxes, The Anatomist; or, The Sham Doctor No No No £365 18s 6d 66% N/A
19 Dec 1801 Drury Lane Isabella, Anatomist No No No £307 1s 57% N/A
04 Jan 1802 Drury Lane Douglas, The Festival of Bacchus, ballet, The Anatomist; or, The Sham Doctor No No No £245 17s 40% N/A
12 Jan 1802 Drury Lane King Henry the Fourth, The Festival of Bacchus, The Anatomist; or, The Sham Doctor No No No £244 8s 39% N/A
09 Feb 1802 Drury Lane Love in a Village, The Anatomist; or, The Sham Doctor No No No £450 2s 64% N/A
17 Feb 1802 Drury Lane The Pirates, The Anatomist; or, The Sham Doctor No No No £140 2s 6d 30% N/A
04 Mar 1802 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Anatomist; or, The Sham Doctor No No No £356 17s 6d 52% N/A
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