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 %
26 Oct 1732 Drury Lane The London Merchant, The Devil to Pay, Tambourine, Dutchwoman, Scots Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
07 Aug 1733 Covent Garden The London Merchant, The Stage Mutineers No No No Unknown N/A N/A
10 Aug 1733 Covent Garden The London Merchant, The Stage Mutineers, French peasant, Scotch Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
17 Aug 1733 Covent Garden The London Merchant, The Stage Mutineers, Scotch Dance, Swedish Dal Karl No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
10 Oct 1733 Drury Lane The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell, Harlequin Dr Faustus No No No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Jul 1735 Drury Lane The London Merchant, The Mock Doctor, Jenny Come Tie Me; Or, The New Way of Wooing, Drunken Peasant, New Comic Dance, Pierot Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
26 Dec 1735 Drury Lane The London Merchant, Colombine Courtezan, Dutchman and Frow, Revellers No No No Unknown N/A N/A
23 May 1740 Covent Garden The London Merchant Or The True And Tragical History Of George Barnwell, The Tragedy of Tragedies, Saraband, Comic Ballet, Grand Ballet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
04 Jun 1741 Drury Lane The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell, The Virgin Unmasked, If Love be a Fault, Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
01 Oct 1743 Drury Lane The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell, The Lying Valet No No No Unknown N/A N/A
27 Dec 1743 Drury Lane The London Merchant, The Anatomist No No No Unknown N/A N/A
16 May 1744 Drury Lane The London Merchant, Flora Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
08 May 1749 Drury Lane The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell, Anatomist, Hornpipe No No Yes £150 N/A N/A
22 Sep 1749 Drury Lane The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell, The Devil to Pay Yes No No £140 100% N/A
23 Sep 1749 Drury Lane The London Merchant, The Anatomist No No No £140 100% N/A
30 Sep 1749 Drury Lane The London Merchant, The Devil to Pay Yes No No £60 100% N/A
31 Oct 1749 Drury Lane The London Merchant, The Devil to Pay, Grand Scotch Dance, Venetian Gardeners No No No £75 4s 36% N/A
26 Dec 1749 Drury Lane The London Merchant, A Duke and no Duke or The Power of Magick, Sailors, Comic Dance, Hornpipe No No No £105 47% N/A
26 Dec 1749 Covent Garden The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell, Perseus and Andromeda No No No £117 2s 53% N/A
15 Feb 1750 Drury Lane The London Merchant, Don Saverio No No No Unknown N/A N/A
08 May 1750 Drury Lane The London Merchant, Miss in Her Teens, Hornpipe, Black Joke, Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
18 Sep 1750 Drury Lane The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell, Lethe No No No £140 100% N/A
20 Sep 1750 Drury Lane The London Merchant, The Chaplet No No No £100 100% N/A
27 Dec 1750 Drury Lane The London Merchant, Queen Mab No No No £140 N/A N/A
14 May 1751 Drury Lane The London Merchant, The Lying Valet, Comic Dance No No Yes £60 N/A N/A
26 Dec 1751 Drury Lane The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell, Harlequin Ranger No No No £200 N/A N/A
26 Dec 1753 Drury Lane George Barnwell, Fortunatus No No No £180 N/A N/A
01 Jan 1756 Drury Lane The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell, The Genii Yes No No £170 N/A N/A
20 Jan 1756 Drury Lane George Barnwell, The Apprentice, Peasant Dance, Pantomime Dance No No No £140 N/A N/A
13 May 1756 Drury Lane The London Merchant, The Anatomist, Hornpipe, Minuet No No Yes £200 N/A N/A
23 May 1757 Drury Lane The London Merchant, The Lying Valet, The Drunken Peasant, Hornpipe No No Yes £180 N/A N/A
15 May 1758 Drury Lane The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell, The King and the Miller of Mansfield Yes No Yes £200 N/A N/A
06 Jan 1759 Drury Lane The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell, Fortunatus No No No £145 11s 70% N/A
17 May 1759 Drury Lane The London Merchant, The Englishman in Paris, Hornpipe, Comic Dance No No Yes £190 N/A N/A
31 Dec 1759 Drury Lane The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell, Harlequin's Invasion or A Christmas Gambol No No No £200 55% N/A
13 May 1760 Drury Lane The London Merchant, The Mock Doctor, Hornpipe No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
25 May 1761 Drury Lane The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell, The King and Miller of Mansfield, Hornpipe No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
06 Nov 1761 Drury Lane The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell, Arcadia No No No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Dec 1761 Drury Lane The London Merchant, The Genii No No No Unknown N/A N/A
17 May 1763 Drury Lane The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell, The Englishman in Paris No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
26 Dec 1763 Drury Lane The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell, The Rites of Hecate or Harlequin from the Moon No No No £269 13s N/A N/A
01 Jan 1765 Drury Lane The London Merchant, Queen Mab, The Medley No No No Unknown N/A N/A
08 Apr 1765 Drury Lane The London Merchant, Queen Mab, New Tambourine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
26 Sep 1765 Drury Lane The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell, The Witches No No No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Sep 1765 Drury Lane The London Merchant, The Witches No No No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Oct 1765 Drury Lane The London Merchant, The Deuce is in Him, The Irish Lilt No No No Unknown N/A N/A
07 Oct 1765 Drury Lane The London Merchant, Fortunatus, The Irish Lilt Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Oct 1765 Drury Lane The London Merchant, Daphne and Amintor No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Nov 1765 Drury Lane The London Merchant, Harlequin's Invasion No No No Unknown N/A N/A
26 Dec 1765 Drury Lane The London Merchant, Harlequin's Invasion No No No Unknown N/A N/A
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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