The Beaux' Stratagem (1707)

Author
George Farquhar
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
£42,795 6s £18,087 4s 6d (42.3%) £24,708 1s 6d (57.7%)
1732 - 1809
£42,795 6s - (100%) £18,087 4s 6d (42.3%) £24,708 1s 6d (57.7%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
378 169 209
1732 - 1809
378 169 209
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
06 May 1755 Covent Garden The Stratagem, The Cheats of Scapin, Les Charbonieres No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
02 Oct 1755 Drury Lane The Stratagem, The King and the Miller, New Comic Dance No No No £200 100% N/A
24 Oct 1755 Covent Garden The Stratagem, The Lottery No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Nov 1755 Drury Lane The Stratagem, The King and Miller of Mansfield, Hornpipe No No No £190 N/A N/A
23 Mar 1756 Drury Lane The Stratagem, The Villagers, New Sailors' Dance No No Yes £240 N/A N/A
23 Apr 1756 Drury Lane The Stratagem, The Intriguing Chambermaid, Hornpipe No No Yes £180 N/A N/A
27 Apr 1756 Covent Garden The Stratagem, The Lying Valet, Fingalian Dance, Italian Peasants, Louvre, Minuet, Villagers No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
19 May 1756 Covent Garden The Stratagem, Harlequin Skeleton No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
29 Sep 1756 Covent Garden The Stratagem, The What Dye Call It No No No Unknown N/A N/A
07 Oct 1756 Drury Lane The Stratagem, The Intriguing Chambermaid Yes No No £180 100% N/A
27 Nov 1756 Covent Garden The Stratagem, Orpheus and Eurydice No No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Dec 1756 Covent Garden The Stratagem, The Englishman Returned from Paris No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
21 Jan 1757 Covent Garden The Stratagem, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Mar 1757 Drury Lane The Stratagem, The Devil to Pay Yes No No £200 N/A N/A
12 Apr 1757 Drury Lane The Stratagem, The Apprentice, Ode in Commemoration of Shakespeare, Minuet No No Yes £180 N/A N/A
30 Apr 1757 Covent Garden The Stratagem, The Devil to Pay No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
07 Oct 1757 Covent Garden The Stratagem, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No £45 5s 6d 31% N/A
26 Oct 1757 Drury Lane The Stratagem, A Duke and no Duke Yes No No £140 71% N/A
23 Dec 1757 Covent Garden The Stratagem, The Virgin Unmasked, The Italian Peasants, The Judgment of Paris No No No £50 2s 6d 21% N/A
16 Feb 1758 Drury Lane The Stratagem, Queen Mab Yes No No £200 57% N/A
08 Apr 1758 Covent Garden The Stratagem, Merlin Harlequin Skeleton, The Savoyards, The Provincial Sailors No No Yes £146 3s 6d 25% N/A
25 Oct 1758 Covent Garden The Stratagem, The Lying Valet, The Threshers No No No £74 16s 6d 26% N/A
15 Jan 1759 Covent Garden The Stratagem, The Englishman Returnd from Paris, The Threshers No No No £93 3s 6d 33% N/A
23 Feb 1759 Covent Garden The Stratagem, Harlequin Skeleton No No No £92 6d 35% N/A
12 Mar 1759 Covent Garden The Stratagem, The Rape of Proserpine No No No £221 60% N/A
07 Apr 1759 Drury Lane The Stratagem, The Reprisal or The Tars of Old England, Comic Dance No No Yes £180 N/A N/A
27 Apr 1759 Covent Garden The Stratagem, The Contrivances, Serious Dance, Le Badinage, Minuet, Tambourine, The Prussian Rope Makers Yes No Yes £89 2s 6d N/A N/A
27 Sep 1759 Drury Lane The Stratagem, Damon and Phillida No No No £200 100% N/A
16 Nov 1759 Drury Lane The Stratagem, High Life Below Stairs, Shepherds Holiday No No No £140 58% N/A
20 Dec 1759 Covent Garden The Stratagem, The Fair No No No £123 12s 39% N/A
15 Jan 1760 Drury Lane The Stratagem, Harlequin's Invasion No No No £180 70% N/A
15 Jan 1760 Covent Garden The Stratagem, The Fair Yes No No £76 18s 30% N/A
29 Mar 1760 Drury Lane The Stratagem, Catherine and Petruchio, The Cow Keepers, Bucks Have at Ye All No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
06 May 1760 Covent Garden The Stratagem, Harlequin Statue, The Threshers, A Lass that was Laden with Care, The Lamp Lighters No No Yes £174 10s 6d N/A N/A
06 Oct 1760 Covent Garden The Stratagem, The Devil to Pay No No No £117 15s 100% N/A
23 Oct 1760 Drury Lane The Stratagem, Queen Mab, The Mad Doctor No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Nov 1760 Covent Garden The Stratagem, Lethe, The Cossacks No No Yes £264 7s N/A N/A
06 Jan 1761 Drury Lane The Stratagem, The Enchanter Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
04 Apr 1761 Drury Lane The Stratagem, Lethe, New Pantomime Dance No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
10 Apr 1761 Drury Lane The Stratagem, A Duke and no Duke, Minuet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
28 Apr 1761 Covent Garden The Stratagem, Flora, The Waggoners No No Yes £145 N/A N/A
02 May 1761 Drury Lane The Stratagem, The Enchanter Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 May 1761 Drury Lane The Stratagem, 1st Act of Taste and Modern Tragedy, Comic Dance Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Sep 1761 Covent Garden The Stratagem, The Devil to Pay No No No Unknown N/A N/A
19 Sep 1761 Drury Lane The Stratagem, Polly Honeycombe, New Comic Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
02 Mar 1762 Covent Garden The Stratagem, Apollo and Daphne No No No Unknown N/A N/A
30 Mar 1762 Drury Lane The Stratagem, The Minor, The Brass Prophecy, New Hornpipe, The Farmer's Return from London, The Picture of the Playhouse or Bucks Have at ye All No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
26 Apr 1762 Drury Lane The Stratagem, The Old Maid, New Hornpipe No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
28 Apr 1762 Covent Garden The Stratagem, The Jealous Farmer Deceiv'd or Harlequin Statue, La Petite Bergere, Hippisley's Drunken Man, Minuet, Serious Dance, The Louvre No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
19 May 1762 Drury Lane The Stratagem, Damon and Phillida, New Dutch Comic Dance, Hearts of Oak No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
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