The Way of the World (1700)

Author
William Congreve
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
£19,792 5s 6d £5,319 4s 6d (26.9%) £14,473 1s (73.1%)
1732 - 1809
£19,792 5s 6d - (100%) £5,319 4s 6d (26.9%) £14,473 1s (73.1%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
214 101 113
1732 - 1809
214 101 113
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
19 Oct 1779 Drury Lane The Way Of The World, The Quaker No No No £189 5s 6d 100% N/A
04 Nov 1779 Drury Lane The Way Of The World, The Critic No No No £210 5s 6d 69% N/A
17 Dec 1779 Drury Lane The Way Of The World, The Camp, The Sportsman Deceived No Yes No £258 15s 6d 70% N/A
06 Mar 1780 Drury Lane The Way Of The World, The Critic, The Sportsman Deceived No No Yes £156 10s 6d N/A N/A
16 Mar 1780 Drury Lane The Way Of The World, The Critic No No Yes £222 19s 6d 36% N/A
13 Apr 1780 Drury Lane The Way Of The World, The Jubilee, Tally Ho! No No Yes £205 9s 6d 46% N/A
31 Oct 1780 Drury Lane The Way Of The World, The Quaker No No No £92 10s 6d 39% N/A
20 Dec 1780 Drury Lane The Way Of The World, Comus No No No £103 7s 6d 50% N/A
22 Jan 1781 Drury Lane The Way Of The World, Comus No No No £175 3s 6d 40% N/A
08 Feb 1781 Drury Lane The Way Of The World, Robinson Crusoe No No No £196 9s 44% N/A
07 May 1781 Drury Lane The Way Of The World, A Fete A Medley, The Rival Candidates, Stand to your guns, you heart of oaks, Teague's Journey through London to Coventry No No Yes £301 17s 22% N/A
13 Oct 1781 Drury Lane The Way Of The World, Comus, The Frenchman in the Dairy No No No £91 16s 31% N/A
09 Jan 1782 Drury Lane The Way Of The World, Lun's Ghost No No No £207 18s 6d 42% N/A
06 Feb 1782 Drury Lane The Way Of The World, The Maid of the Oaks, Minuet de la Cour No No No £204 7s 6d 51% N/A
01 Apr 1782 Drury Lane The Way Of The World, Robinson Crusoe, The Distress'd Lovers No No Yes £115 8s N/A N/A
24 Apr 1782 Drury Lane The Way Of The World, Henry and Emma, The Capricious Lovers, The Irish Fair No No Yes £213 3s 6d 69% N/A
13 May 1782 Drury Lane The Way Of The World, The Critic, Minuet de la Cour No No Yes £287 15s 62% N/A
06 Dec 1782 Covent Garden The Way Of The World, The Golden Pippin, Diversion a la Mode, The Devonshire Minuet No No No £177 10s 42% N/A
10 Dec 1782 Covent Garden The Way Of The World, Lord Mayor's Day No No No £176 5s 63% N/A
20 Dec 1782 Covent Garden The Way Of The World, The Sultan, Diversion a la Mode, Grand Dance, The Devonshire Minuet No No No £241 8s 6d 47% N/A
28 Jan 1784 Drury Lane The Way Of The World, Harlequin Junior No No No £149 18s 33% N/A
12 Feb 1784 Drury Lane The Way Of The World, Harlequin Junior No No No £87 2s 6d 26% N/A
12 Apr 1784 Drury Lane The Way Of The World, A Fete, The Double Disguise, A Soldier for Me, My Lucy, alas! is no more, Minuet, Time has not thinned my flowing Hair, Tally ho!, We be three poor Mariners, The Merry Sailors No No Yes £305 1s 44% N/A
18 May 1784 Drury Lane The Way Of The World, High Life below Stairs, The Minuet de la Cour, Gramachree Molly, Shepherds, I have lost my love, New Comic Ballet No No Yes £160 6s 6d 31% N/A
11 Nov 1784 Covent Garden The Way Of The World, Rosina No No No Unknown N/A N/A
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