Lethe; or, Esop in the Shades (1740)

Author
David Garrick
Work Type
Afterpiece
Genre
Comedy
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
£31,143 19s £7,312 12s 6d (23.5%) £23,831 6s 6d (76.5%)
1732 - 1809
£31,143 19s - (100%) £7,312 12s 6d (23.5%) £23,831 6s 6d (76.5%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
229 71 158
1732 - 1809
229 71 158
Notes
'A Dramatic Satire'.
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
20 Nov 1758 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Lethe, The Feast of Bacchus No No No £74 8s 6d 35% N/A
21 Nov 1758 Drury Lane The Siege Of Damascus, Lethe No No No £187 11s 6d 79% N/A
13 Dec 1758 Drury Lane Merope, Lethe No No Yes £160 N/A N/A
18 Dec 1758 Covent Garden Theodosius Or The Force Of Love, Lethe, The Fingalian Dance No No No £118 2s 6d N/A N/A
02 Jan 1759 Drury Lane The Alchemist, Lethe Yes No No £187 5s 6d 71% N/A
12 Jan 1759 Covent Garden The Mourning Bride, Lethe, The Feast of Bacchus No No Yes £193 10s 6d 39% N/A
14 Feb 1759 Covent Garden The Committee, Lethe, The Threshers No No No £59 7s 6d 27% N/A
24 Feb 1759 Covent Garden Cleone, Lethe, The Threshers No No No £84 6s 6d 33% N/A
19 Mar 1759 Drury Lane Zara, Lethe No No Yes £213 N/A N/A
19 Apr 1759 Drury Lane Tancred And Sigismunda, Lethe No No Yes £170 N/A N/A
25 Apr 1759 Covent Garden King Henry V, Lethe, La Mariee, Fingalian Dance, Minuet, The Threshers No No Yes £45 9s 6d N/A N/A
05 May 1759 Covent Garden Theodosius, Lethe, Fingalian Dance No No Yes £128 10s 6d 22% N/A
21 May 1759 Covent Garden The Suspicious Husband, Lethe, The Threshers No No Yes £155 4s 6d N/A N/A
03 Oct 1759 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Lethe No No No £70 2s 100% N/A
25 Oct 1759 Drury Lane The Orphan Or The Unhappy Marriage, Lethe, Italian Gardiner Yes No No £120 53% N/A
05 Dec 1759 Covent Garden Theodosius Or The Force Of Love, Lethe, The Dutch Skipper No No No £69 N/A N/A
12 Dec 1759 Covent Garden Zara, Lethe, Fingalian Dance No No Yes £163 15s 6d 21% N/A
27 Mar 1760 Drury Lane Zara, Lethe, The Cow Keepers No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
27 Mar 1760 Covent Garden Comus, Lethe, Nymphs and Shepherds Yes No Yes £268 N/A N/A
08 Apr 1760 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, Lethe, Fingalian Dance, The Lamp Lighters Yes No Yes £218 9s N/A N/A
17 Apr 1760 Covent Garden Macbeth, Lethe, The Knife Grinders, Minuet, Shepherdess, The Peasants, The Pygmalion Dance Yes No Yes £86 7s N/A N/A
18 Apr 1760 Covent Garden Coriolanus, Lethe, Fingalian Dance, The Threshers No No Yes £113 5s 6d N/A N/A
21 Apr 1760 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Lethe, Comic Dance, The Knife Grinders No No Yes £33 11s 6d N/A N/A
08 May 1760 Covent Garden The Way Of The World, Lethe, The Drunken Peasant, The Dutch Skipper, The Lamplighters, The Threshers No No Yes £212 12s N/A N/A
01 Oct 1760 Covent Garden Hamlet, Lethe No No No £141 100% N/A
08 Oct 1760 Drury Lane Zara, Lethe, The Cow Keepers No No No Unknown N/A N/A
19 Nov 1760 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Lethe, The Colliers, The Pedlar Tricked No No No £115 2s N/A N/A
21 Nov 1760 Covent Garden The Stratagem, Lethe, The Cossacks No No Yes £264 7s N/A N/A
16 Dec 1760 Covent Garden The Orphan, Lethe, Les Charboniers No No Yes £176 1s 6d N/A N/A
06 Jan 1761 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Lethe, Scaramouche, Les Charboniers No No Yes £147 1s N/A N/A
24 Jan 1761 Drury Lane The Minor, Lethe, The Enchanted Peasant No No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Mar 1761 Covent Garden Venice Preserved Or A Plot Discoverd, Lethe, The Hungarian Gambols or a Provincial Rendevous No No No £104 19s 6d N/A N/A
04 Apr 1761 Drury Lane The Stratagem, Lethe, New Pantomime Dance No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
13 Apr 1761 Covent Garden Jane Shore, Lethe, Les Charboniers No No Yes £166 14s N/A N/A
17 Apr 1761 Covent Garden Wit Without Money, Lethe, The Waggoners No No Yes £202 6d N/A N/A
30 Apr 1761 Drury Lane Othello, Lethe Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
14 May 1761 Covent Garden The Miser, Lethe, Last New Comic Dance No No Yes £215 13s N/A N/A
03 Oct 1761 Covent Garden The Spanish Fryar Or The Double Discovery, Lethe, The Pedlar Tricked No No No £86 15s 6d N/A N/A
11 Nov 1761 Covent Garden Comus, Lethe No No No £131 13s 6d N/A N/A
14 Dec 1761 Drury Lane Hecuba, Lethe, New Dutch Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
16 Dec 1761 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant, Lethe, The Pedlar Tricked No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
24 Apr 1762 Covent Garden The Twins Or A Comedy Of Errors, Lethe, Let Not the Rage, The Taylors Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
28 Oct 1762 Covent Garden Every Man In His Humour, Lethe, The Jealous Woodcutter No No No Unknown N/A N/A
02 Nov 1762 Covent Garden Every Man In His Humour, Lethe, The Jealous Woodcutter No No No Unknown N/A N/A
11 Nov 1762 Drury Lane King Henry IV Part II, Lethe No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
13 Nov 1762 Covent Garden Every Man In His Humour, Lethe, The Jealous Woodcutter No No No Unknown N/A N/A
13 Apr 1763 Covent Garden Every Man In His Humour, Lethe, The Catalonian Marriage No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
23 Apr 1763 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Lethe No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
23 Nov 1763 Covent Garden Every Man In His Humour, Lethe, The Cudgelled Husband No No No Unknown N/A N/A
02 Apr 1764 Drury Lane The Orphan Of China, Lethe, The Faggot Binders No No Yes £259 8s 6d N/A N/A
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