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 %
05 Dec 1782 Drury Lane The Stratagem, The Gentle Shepherd, Minuet de la Cour No No No £83 6s 6d 32% N/A
09 Dec 1782 Drury Lane The Stratagem, Robinson Crusoe, Minuet de la Cour No No No £111 2s 6d 34% N/A
02 Dec 1783 Drury Lane The Stratagem, The Ladies' Frolick, Crutch Dance, The Pastoral Lovers No No No £108 4s N/A N/A
14 Jan 1784 Drury Lane The Stratagem, Harlequin Junior No No No £240 3s 61% N/A
23 Mar 1784 Drury Lane The Stratagem, The Double Disguise, The Sportmen's Return No No No £106 7s 6d 39% N/A
23 Sep 1784 Drury Lane The Stratagem, Harlequin Junior or The Magic Cestus, The Sportsmen's Return No No No £164 2s 100% N/A
19 Nov 1785 Covent Garden The Beaux Stratagem, Three Weeks after Marriage, The Piping Pedlar No No No £243 3s 54% N/A
30 Nov 1785 Covent Garden The Beaux Stratagem, Three Weeks after Marriage, The Piping Pedlar No No No £184 9s 41% N/A
10 Feb 1786 Covent Garden The Beaux Stratagem, Three Weeks after Marriage, The Recruiting Sergeant No No Yes £406 13s 6d 48% N/A
06 May 1786 Covent Garden The Beaux Stratagem, The Deserter, A Description of the Tombs in Westminster Abbey No No Yes £101 16s 6d N/A N/A
02 Jun 1786 Covent Garden The Beaux Stratagem, The Poor Soldier, The Irish Lilt No No Yes £175 13s 70% N/A
04 Jan 1787 Covent Garden The Beaux Stratagem, The Enchanted Castle No No No £229 2s 6d 44% N/A
18 Jan 1787 Drury Lane The Stratagem, Richard Coeur de Lion, La Soiree Provencalle No No No £183 8s 49% N/A
13 Feb 1787 Drury Lane The Stratagem, Richard Coeur de Lion, La Soiree Provencalle No No No £149 7s 41% N/A
20 Sep 1787 Drury Lane The Stratagem, All the Worlds a Stage, The Capricious Lovers No No No £149 11s 100% N/A
19 Oct 1787 Covent Garden The Beaux Stratagem, The Irish Widow, Mirth by Moonshine No No No £158 9s 100% N/A
04 Jan 1788 Drury Lane The Stratagem, Harlequin Junior, The Capricious Lovers No No No £132 7s 6d 40% N/A
17 Jan 1788 Covent Garden The Beaux Stratagem, Rosina, The Piping Pedlar No No No £228 7s 6d 58% N/A
07 Feb 1788 Covent Garden The Beaux Stratagem, The Farmer No No No £212 12s 6d 65% N/A
31 Mar 1788 Covent Garden The Beaux Stratagem, Omai No No No £201 2s 68% N/A
26 May 1788 Drury Lane The Stratagem, The Lyar, Hunting Song No No Yes £177 10s 17% N/A
24 Sep 1788 Covent Garden The Beaux Stratagem, The Farmer, Mirth by Moonshine No No No £255 3s 6d 100% N/A
04 Nov 1788 Covent Garden The Beaux Stratagem, Rosina, Fortune's Favor, or The Lovers Lottery No No No £165 16s 50% N/A
07 Jan 1789 Drury Lane The Stratagem, Comus, Jamie's Return No No No £86 6s 6d 26% N/A
16 Sep 1789 Covent Garden The Beaux Stratagem, Don Juan or The Libertine Destroyed No No No £159 18s 6d 100% N/A
21 Nov 1789 Drury Lane The Beaux Stratagem, The Island of St Marguerite, Minuet de la Cour, Gavot No No Yes £134 4s 6d N/A N/A
27 May 1790 Covent Garden The Beaux Stratagem, Love in a Camp, Dance of Jockies No No Yes £393 10s 6d 52% N/A
29 May 1790 Drury Lane The Beaux Stratagem, The Humourist, The Minuet de la Cour, Gavot No No Yes £48 4s N/A N/A
28 Dec 1790 Covent Garden The Beaux Stratagem, The Picture of Paris No No No £209 5s 6d 49% N/A
15 Jun 1792 Drury Lane The Beaux Stratagem, The Englishman in Paris, Allemand No No Yes £57 15s 6d N/A N/A
18 Oct 1792 Drury Lane The Beaux Stratagem, The Prisoner No No No £217 10s 45% N/A
19 Nov 1792 Drury Lane The Beaux Stratagem, The Humourist No No No £75 16s 6d 21% N/A
10 Dec 1792 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £115 4s 29% N/A
20 Dec 1792 Drury Lane The Beaux Stratagem, The Prisoner No No No £119 16s 6d 31% N/A
08 Jan 1793 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, Harlequin's Invasion No No No £156 18s 6d 31% N/A
07 Jun 1793 Drury Lane The Beaux Stratagem, The Cheats of Scapin, Le Pas Russe, New Comic Dance No No Yes £40 18s N/A N/A
27 Sep 1793 Covent Garden The Beaux Stratagem, The Farmer, The Irish Lilt No No No £270 13s 100% N/A
28 Dec 1793 Covent Garden The Beaux Stratagem, Harlequin And Faustus No No No £369 3s 100% N/A
25 Jan 1794 Covent Garden The Beaux Stratagem, Harlequin And Faustus No No No £230 7s 100% N/A
16 Jun 1794 Drury Lane The Beaux Stratagem, Lodoiska No No No £209 7s 90% N/A
19 Sep 1794 Covent Garden The Beaux Stratagem, The Poor Soldier No No No £191 7s 100% N/A
03 Jan 1795 Covent Garden The Beaux Stratagem, Mago and Dago No No No £171 19s 52% N/A
27 Oct 1796 Drury Lane The Beaux Stratagem, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £218 6d 56% N/A
31 Dec 1796 Covent Garden The Beaux Stratagem, Harlequin and Oberon No No No £192 6d 54% N/A
28 Dec 1797 Covent Garden The Beaux Stratagem, Harlequin and Quixotte No No No £282 2s 6d 49% N/A
22 Mar 1798 Covent Garden The Beaux Stratagem, Oscar and Malvina No No No £230 3s 36% N/A
05 May 1798 Covent Garden Hooly And Fairly, The Beaux Stratagem, Oscar and Malvina, Highland Reel, Highland Laddy, Admiral Benbow, Andrew and His Cutty Gun, Hooly and Fairly, Katharine Ogie, Old Towler, Todlen Hame, Tulloch Goram No No Yes £131 7s 40% N/A
13 Oct 1798 Drury Lane The Beaux Stratagem, Blue Beard No No No £307 17s 6d 100% N/A
11 Oct 1799 Covent Garden The Beaux Stratagem, The Naval Pillar, Black Ey'd Susan, A Bundle of Proverbs, An Hungry Fox One Day Did Spy, Britons, Your Country's Gratitude Behold, In Praise of the Tars Who Have Leathered the World, Mr Speaker Tho' 'Tis Late, Sir Sydney Smith, The Embarkation, The Navy and Army of Britain Forever, We Come, Ye Guardians of Our Isle, When a Tar Returns Home, When Britain First Her Flag Upreared, When Peace Smiles Around No No No £298 4s 6d 100% N/A
07 Jan 1800 Covent Garden The Beaux Stratagem, The Volcano No No No £209 9s 6d 31% N/A
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