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 %
15 Nov 1755 Covent Garden The Funeral, Flora No No No Unknown N/A N/A
06 May 1757 Covent Garden The Twin Rivals, Flora or Hob in the Well, The Lamplighters, Mock Italian and English Cantata No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
11 May 1757 Covent Garden The Way Of The World, Flora No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
19 May 1757 Covent Garden The Funeral, Flora No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
27 Nov 1758 Covent Garden Love For Love, Flora or Hob in the Well, Fingalian Dance, The Threshers No No Yes £71 1s N/A N/A
18 Mar 1760 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Country Wake or Hob in the Well, Comic Dance, The Lamp Lighters Yes No Yes £269 6s 6d N/A N/A
09 Apr 1760 Covent Garden King Henry IV Part I, Flora, Fingalian Dance, The Lamp Lighters No No Yes £158 4s 6d N/A N/A
24 Apr 1760 Covent Garden Sir Courtly Nice Or It Cannot Be, Flora or Hob in the Well, Comic Dance, The Lamp Lighters No No Yes £193 13s N/A N/A
30 Apr 1760 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, Flora, Hornpipe, The Lamp Lighters Yes No Yes £143 16s N/A N/A
07 May 1760 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, Flora, The Drunken Peasant, The Lamp Lighters No No Yes £205 4s N/A N/A
15 May 1760 Covent Garden Sir Courtly Nice, Flora, Comic Dance, The Lamp Lighters No No Yes £226 6s 9d N/A N/A
29 Sep 1760 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, Flora or Hob in the Well No No No £206 4s 6d 100% N/A
20 Nov 1760 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, Flora No No No £113 N/A N/A
28 Apr 1761 Covent Garden The Stratagem, Flora, The Waggoners No No Yes £145 N/A N/A
05 May 1761 Covent Garden King Richard III, Flora, Comic Dance No No Yes £234 18s 6d N/A N/A
13 May 1761 Covent Garden The Spanish Fryar, Flora, New Comic Dance No No Yes £232 19s N/A N/A
11 Apr 1767 Drury Lane King Richard III, Flora or Hob in the Well, The Vintage No No Yes £201 19s 58% N/A
20 Apr 1767 Drury Lane The Clandestine Marriage, Flora, Minuet, Cries of London (with Description of the Tombs in Westminster Abbey) No No Yes £232 1s 55% N/A
23 Apr 1767 Drury Lane King Lear, Flora, Hearts of Oak No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
11 May 1767 Drury Lane King Richard III, Flora, Double Hornpipe, The Irish Lilt No No Yes £65 9s 6d N/A N/A
15 May 1767 Drury Lane The Clandestine Marriage, Flora, The Louvre, Double Hornpipe, Linco's Travels, Minuet Yes No Yes £39 16s N/A N/A
16 May 1767 Drury Lane The Careless Husband, Flora, Minuet No No Yes £17 15s 6d N/A N/A
07 Dec 1767 Drury Lane The Widowd Wife, Flora or Hob in the Well No No No Unknown N/A N/A
16 Dec 1767 Drury Lane The Stratagem, Flora Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
23 Jan 1768 Drury Lane False Delicacy, Flora No No No Unknown N/A N/A
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