Aesop (1697)

Author
Sir John Vanbrugh
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
£1,016 13s £0 (0%) £1,016 13s (100%)
1732 - 1809
£1,016 13s - (100%) £0 (0%) £1,016 13s (100%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
32 11 21
1732 - 1809
32 11 21
Notes
Based on Edme Boursault's Les fables d'Ésope (1691).
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
24 Sep 1733 Drury Lane Aesop, The Devil to Pay or The Wives Metamorphosd No No No Unknown N/A N/A
26 Sep 1733 Drury Lane Aesop, The Devil to Pay, Drunken Peasant, English Maggot No No No Unknown N/A N/A
26 Jan 1734 Covent Garden Aesop, Perseus and Andromeda No No No Unknown N/A N/A
05 Jan 1738 Drury Lane Aesop, The Burgomaster Trick'd No No No Unknown N/A N/A
06 Jan 1738 Drury Lane Aesop, The Burgomaster Trick'd No No No Unknown N/A N/A
07 Jan 1738 Drury Lane Aesop, The Burgomaster Trick'd No No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Jan 1738 Drury Lane Aesop, The Burgomaster Trick'd No No No Unknown N/A N/A
08 Nov 1738 Drury Lane Aesop, Robin Goodfellow, Double Jealousy No No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Dec 1738 Drury Lane Aesop, The Harlots Progress, Double Jealousy No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
26 Feb 1739 Drury Lane Aesop, The Harlots Progress No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
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