The Provokd Wife (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
£17,222 7s £3,167 4s 6d (18.4%) £14,055 2s 6d (81.6%)
1732 - 1809
£17,222 7s - (100%) £3,167 4s 6d (18.4%) £14,055 2s 6d (81.6%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
240 94 146
1732 - 1809
240 94 146
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
17 Nov 1737 Drury Lane The Provok'd Wife, The Lottery, Drunken Peasant, Scot's Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
23 Jan 1738 Covent Garden The Provok'd Wife, The Dragon of Wantley, Chancon a Boire, Je ne scai quoi No No No Unknown N/A N/A
07 Mar 1738 Covent Garden The Provok'd Wife, The Dragon of Wantley, Chancon a Boire, Grand Ballet Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Apr 1738 Drury Lane The Provok'd Wife, The Devil to Pay, Tambourine, Drunken Peasant, La Pieraite, Maggot, Punch No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
15 May 1738 Covent Garden The Provok'd Wife, The Honest Yorkshireman, Comic Dance, Chancon a Boire, Grecian Sailors, Je ne scai quoy, Pantomime Dance, Two Pierrots No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
24 Oct 1738 Drury Lane The Provok'd Wife, The Intriguing Chambermaid No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Nov 1738 Drury Lane The Provok'd Wife, Robin Goodfellow No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Jan 1739 Covent Garden The Provok'd Wife, Flora, Comic Dance, Grecian Sailors, Serious Dance Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
24 Jan 1739 Drury Lane The Provok'd Wife, The Lottery, Tambourine, Aethiopian Dance, Punch No No No Unknown N/A N/A
05 Mar 1739 Covent Garden The Provok'd Wife, Margery, Chancon a Boire No No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 May 1739 Drury Lane The Provok'd Wife, The What Dye Call It, English Maggot, Grand Dance of Moors, Minuet, Pierots No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
08 Nov 1739 Drury Lane The Provok'd Wife, The Fall of Phaeton, To Arms, Grand Ballet, Britons Strike Home No No No Unknown N/A N/A
19 Feb 1740 Drury Lane The Provok'd Wife, The Fortune Tellers, La Matelote, Voyage to the Land of Cytherea, Scots Dance, Wooden Shoe Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
14 Apr 1740 Drury Lane The Provok'd Wife, The Mock Doctor, Water Music, La Matelote, The Noon Tide Air, Le Tambourine No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
14 Apr 1740 Covent Garden The Provok'd Wife, The Mock Doctor, Comic Ballet, Grand Ballet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
20 May 1740 Drury Lane The Provok'd Wife, The Devil To Pay, Pierots, Drunken Peasant, Hornpipe, Le Tambourine No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
08 Oct 1740 Covent Garden The Provok'd Wife, The Mock Doctor, Je ne scai quoy, The Peasants, The Swiss No No No £48 7s 100% N/A
11 Nov 1740 Drury Lane The Provok'd Wife, The Intriguing Chambermaid, Ballet, Shepherds and Sherpherdesses No No No Unknown N/A N/A
10 Jan 1741 Covent Garden The Provok'd Wife, Louvre, Harlequin Dance, Minuet, Tyrolean Dance, Yorkshire Maggot No No No £48 2s N/A N/A
17 Apr 1741 Covent Garden The Provok'd Wife, The Whim or The Merry Cheat No No Yes £113 15s N/A N/A
01 May 1741 Drury Lane The Provok'd Wife, The Mock Doctor, L'Allemande, Blow Blow, La Tambourine, Minuet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
08 Oct 1741 Covent Garden The Provok'd Wife No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Nov 1741 Drury Lane The Provoked Wife, Le Boufon, Les Mes Sabotiers No No No £104 N/A N/A
03 Dec 1741 Drury Lane The Provoked Wife, Bright Author Of My Present Flame, Pierrot Dance, Musette, Non Chamarmi, The Drunken Peasant No Yes No £182 N/A N/A
14 Dec 1741 Covent Garden The Provok'd Wife Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
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