The London Merchant; or, The True History of George Barnwell (1731)

Author
George Lillo
Work Type
Mainpiece
Genre
Tragedy
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
£22,350 14s £5,640 9s 6d (25.2%) £16,710 4s 6d (74.8%)
1732 - 1809
£22,350 14s - (100%) £5,640 9s 6d (25.2%) £16,710 4s 6d (74.8%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
165 48 117
1732 - 1809
165 48 117
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
13 May 1766 Drury Lane The London Merchant, The Devil to Pay, The Whistling Plowman, Tambourine, Hornpipe No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
01 Jun 1767 Drury Lane The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell, The Register Office, Double Hornpipe, Bucks Have At Ye All No No Yes £33 14s N/A N/A
23 Oct 1767 Drury Lane The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell, A Peep behind the Curtain or The New Rehearsal No No No Unknown N/A N/A
26 Oct 1767 Covent Garden George Barnwell, The Royal Chace No No No £177 16s 6d N/A N/A
09 Nov 1767 Covent Garden George Barnwell, The Oxonian in Town, The Female Archer No No No £237 13s 6d N/A N/A
26 Dec 1767 Drury Lane The London Merchant, The Elopement No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Jan 1768 Covent Garden George Barnwell, Orpheus and Eurydice No No No £193 16s N/A N/A
02 May 1768 Covent Garden George Barnwell, Harlequin Dr Faustus, The Highland Reel No No Yes £226 13s N/A N/A
23 May 1768 Covent Garden George Barnwell, Harlequin Dr Faustus No No No £51 1s 6d N/A N/A
23 Sep 1768 Drury Lane The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell, Harlequin's Invasion No No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Nov 1768 Covent Garden George Barnwell, Harlequin Dr Faustus No No No £174 14s N/A N/A
09 Jan 1769 Covent Garden George Barnwell, Apollo and Daphne Yes No No £206 9s 6d N/A N/A
10 Apr 1769 Covent Garden George Barnwell, Harlequin Dr Faustus No No Yes £174 2s N/A N/A
17 May 1769 Covent Garden George Barnwell, Miss in Her Teens, Minuet, Pantomime No No Yes £238 N/A N/A
22 May 1769 Drury Lane The London Merchant, Catharine and Petruchio, The Wake No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
25 Sep 1769 Covent Garden George Barnwell, The Dragon of Wantly, Rural Love No No No £203 10s 6d 100% N/A
09 Nov 1769 Drury Lane The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell, The Jubilee No No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Nov 1769 Covent Garden George Barnwell, The Rape of Proserpine No No No £195 3s 6d N/A N/A
26 Dec 1769 Drury Lane The London Merchant, The Jubilee No No No Unknown N/A N/A
29 Jan 1770 Covent Garden George Barnwell, Harlequin's Jubilee No No No £246 8s N/A N/A
10 May 1770 Covent Garden George Barnwell, Miss in Her Teens, Hippisley's Drunken Man, The Tambourine Yes No Yes £165 19s N/A N/A
28 May 1770 Drury Lane The London Merchant, A Peep behind the Curtain, Bucks Have at Ye All No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
04 Jun 1770 Drury Lane The London Merchant, A Trip to Scotland, Minuet, Bucks Have At Ye All, Allemande, Hornpipe Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
01 Oct 1770 Covent Garden George Barnwell, Harlequin's Jubilee No No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Oct 1770 Covent Garden George Barnwell, The Rape of Proserpine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Nov 1770 Drury Lane The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell, The Jubilee No No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Nov 1770 Covent Garden George Barnwell, The Rape of Proserpine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
26 Dec 1770 Covent Garden George Barnwell, Mother Shipton No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Apr 1771 Covent Garden George Barnwell, True Blue, Harlequin Skeleton Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
20 May 1771 Drury Lane The London Merchant, High Life below Stairs, The Shepherds Frolic, The Sailors' Revels No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
27 May 1771 Covent Garden George Barnwell, Harlequin Dr Faustus No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
30 Sep 1771 Covent Garden George Barnwell, The Commissary, The Corsican Sailor's Punch House Yes No No £190 14s 100% N/A
09 Nov 1771 Covent Garden George Barnwell, The Commissary, True Blue; or, The Press Gang No No No £129 13s 41% N/A
03 Jan 1772 Covent Garden George Barnwell, Mother Shipton No No No £152 6s 6d 37% N/A
20 Apr 1772 Covent Garden George Barnwell, Mother Shipton No No No £117 5s 47% N/A
09 Nov 1772 Drury Lane The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell, The Witches No No No £140 6d 37% N/A
26 Dec 1772 Drury Lane The London Merchant, The Pigmy Revels or Harlequin Foundling No No No £162 13s 6d 42% N/A
28 May 1773 Covent Garden George Barnwell, The Contrivances, Hornpipe, The Cumberland Cornthrashers No No Yes £262 19s 6d N/A N/A
27 Sep 1773 Covent Garden George Barnwell, Midas No No No £176 6s 6d 100% N/A
27 Dec 1773 Covent Garden George Barnwell, Harlequin Dr Faustus No No No £184 14s 46% N/A
28 May 1774 Drury Lane The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell, The Wedding Ring, The Sailors' Revels No No Yes £246 100% N/A
26 Sep 1774 Covent Garden George Barnwell, The Sylphs No No No Unknown N/A N/A
02 Jan 1775 Covent Garden George Barnwell, The Druids No No No Unknown N/A N/A
23 Oct 1775 Covent Garden George Barnwell, Orpheus and Eurydice No No No Unknown N/A N/A
26 Dec 1775 Drury Lane The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell, The Jubilee No No No £242 6d N/A N/A
17 May 1776 Drury Lane George Barnwell, The Padlock, The Sailors' Revels No No Yes £37 3s 6d N/A N/A
06 Jun 1777 Drury Lane George Barnwell, The Mayor of Garratt, The Irish Fair No No Yes £227 5s 6d 100% N/A
26 Dec 1777 Covent Garden George Barnwell, The Norwood Gypsies No No No £224 1s 55% N/A
05 Jan 1778 Covent Garden George Barnwell, The Norwood Gypsies No No No £152 17s 42% N/A
21 May 1778 Drury Lane George Barnwell, The Waterman, Hornpipe No No Yes £276 13s 64% N/A
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