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 %
01 May 1745 Covent Garden The Careless Husband, Flora, Comic Dance, And We Are Gayly Yet, Scotch Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
06 May 1745 Covent Garden Love Makes A Man, Flora, Minuet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
10 May 1745 Covent Garden The Provoked Husband, Flora, Scotch Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
13 May 1745 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Flora, Scotch Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
10 Feb 1747 Drury Lane All For Love, Flora No No No £100 43% N/A
12 Feb 1747 Drury Lane All For Love, Flora No No No £80 28% N/A
14 Feb 1747 Drury Lane All For Love, Flora No No No £70 N/A N/A
17 Feb 1747 Drury Lane Venice Preserved, Flora No No No £60 24% N/A
21 Feb 1747 Drury Lane All For Love, Flora No No No £60 N/A N/A
26 Feb 1747 Drury Lane The Humours Of The Army, Flora No No No £30 16% N/A
05 Mar 1747 Drury Lane The Artful Husband, Flora No No No £60 31% N/A
07 Apr 1747 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, Flora No No No £20 24% N/A
01 May 1747 Drury Lane Macbeth, Flora No No Yes £80 N/A N/A
05 May 1747 Drury Lane The Provoked Wife, Flora No No Yes £80 N/A N/A
12 May 1747 Drury Lane The Miser, Flora No No Yes £100 N/A N/A
09 Jan 1748 Drury Lane Jane Shore, Flora Yes No No £174 9s N/A N/A
11 Jan 1748 Drury Lane Jane Shore, Flora No No No £156 17s N/A N/A
11 Feb 1748 Drury Lane The Provoked Wife, Flora, Tambourine, Dutch Dance Yes No No £136 8s 6d N/A N/A
21 Dec 1748 Covent Garden Cato, Flora No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Dec 1748 Covent Garden Love Makes A Man Or The Fops Fortune, Flora No No No Unknown N/A N/A
10 Apr 1749 Covent Garden Sir Courtly Nice Or It Cannot Be, Flora, Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
16 Oct 1749 Covent Garden The Double Dealer, Flora No No No £82 7s 6d 100% N/A
19 Oct 1749 Covent Garden Julius Caesar With The Deaths Of Brutus And Cassius, Hob or The Country Wake No No No £69 10s 6d 37% N/A
23 Oct 1749 Covent Garden The Suspicious Husband, Hob No No No £55 8s 28% N/A
28 Oct 1749 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Hob No No No £90 8s 6d 31% N/A
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