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
04 Oct 1739 Drury Lane Aesop, The Harlots Progress, Le Provencale, Tambourine, Turkish Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Jan 1740 Drury Lane Aesop, Harlequin Grand Volgi, Les Characters de la Dance, Grand Ballet No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
04 May 1742 Covent Garden Aesop, The Honest Yorkshireman, The Cries of London, Pantaloon and Enamorata, Arra My Judy Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
15 May 1742 Covent Garden Aesop, The Country House, Scots Dance, Rural Assembly, La Provencale, Les Savoyardes Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Oct 1743 Drury Lane Aesop, The Lying Valet No No No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Oct 1743 Drury Lane Aesop, The School Boy Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Dec 1743 Covent Garden Aesop, The Lottery, Scotch Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
19 Jan 1744 Drury Lane Aesop, The Lying Valet, Italian Masquerade, New Serious Dance Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Feb 1744 Covent Garden Aesop, The Rape of Proserpine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Feb 1744 Covent Garden Aesop, Orpheus and Eurydice No No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Dec 1744 Covent Garden Aesop, The Rape of Proserpine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Dec 1744 Covent Garden Aesop, The Lottery Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
21 Jan 1748 Covent Garden Aesop, Tea, Foote's Vagaries No No No Unknown N/A N/A
27 Feb 1748 Covent Garden Aesop, The Royal Chace, Ah se amanti fasti mai felice Belve, Go Rose, My Chloe's Bosom Grace, Tis' Liberty, Dear Liberty No No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Jan 1753 Covent Garden Aesop, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Dec 1758 Drury Lane Aesop, Mercury Harlequin No No No £132 15s 6d 57% N/A
01 Jan 1759 Drury Lane Aesop, Mercury Harlequin No No No £129 16s 6d 51% N/A
04 Jan 1759 Drury Lane Aesop, Fortunatus No No No £145 6d 67% N/A
08 Jan 1759 Drury Lane Aesop, Fortunatus No No No £165 16s 6d 61% N/A
10 Jan 1759 Drury Lane Aesop, Fortunatus No No No £148 51% N/A
13 Feb 1759 Drury Lane Aesop, Fortunatus No No No £126 12s 71% N/A
21 Feb 1759 Drury Lane Aesop, The Guardian, The Swiss Yes No No £168 12s 70% N/A

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