Flora; or, Hob in the Well (1760)

Author
John Hippisley
Author
Thomas Doggett
Author
William Bates
Composer
William Bates
Work Type
Afterpiece
Genre
Farce
Performance Medium
Musical
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
£10,765 4s 9d £7,796 9s 9d (72.4%) £2,968 15s (27.6%)
1732 - 1809
£10,765 4s 9d - (100%) £7,796 9s 9d (72.4%) £2,968 15s (27.6%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
149 112 37
1732 - 1809
149 112 37
Notes
Adapted from Thomas Doggett's The Country Wake (1711) and John Hippisley's Flora; or, Hob's Opera (1729).
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
31 Oct 1733 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Flora, Scotch Dance, Tambourine, Two Pierrots No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Nov 1733 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Flora, Scottish Dance, The Nassau No No No Unknown N/A N/A
04 Dec 1733 Covent Garden Oroonoko, Flora, Fingalian, Scottish Dance, Swedish Dal Karl No No No Unknown N/A N/A
03 Jan 1734 Covent Garden Hamlet Prince Of Denmark, Flora, Single Dance, French Sailor and his Lass No No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Jan 1734 Covent Garden The False Friend, Flora, Scottish Dance, Pigmalion No No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Mar 1734 Covent Garden Flora, French Sailor and his Lass, She Wou'd if She Cou'd, Scotch dance, Shepherd and Shepherdess No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
28 Mar 1734 Covent Garden Timon Of Athens, Flora, French Sailor and his Lass, Dialogue Between a Courtier and Farmers Wife, Scots Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
02 Sep 1734 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Flora No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
28 Sep 1734 Drury Lane The Mourning Bride, Flora No No No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Oct 1734 Drury Lane The Mourning Bride, Flora Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
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