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 %
19 Sep 1764 Covent Garden Hamlet, Lethe No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Feb 1765 Covent Garden Coriolanus, Lethe, Rural Love No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Apr 1765 Drury Lane The Orphan Of China, Lethe, The Irish Lilt, The Medley No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
16 May 1765 Covent Garden The Royal Convert, Lethe, Rural Love No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
23 Sep 1765 Covent Garden King Lear And His Three Daughters, Lethe No No No Unknown N/A N/A
23 Jan 1766 Drury Lane Zara, Lethe, New Tambourine No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
31 Jan 1766 Drury Lane Zara, Lethe No No No Unknown N/A N/A
17 Apr 1766 Covent Garden Love In A Village, Lethe, Rural Love Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
02 May 1766 Covent Garden Comus, Lethe, The Drunken Peasant No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
18 Oct 1766 Drury Lane Zara, Lethe No No No £254 5s 6d 55% N/A
28 Jan 1767 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Lethe, The Female Archer Yes No No £204 2s 63% N/A
07 May 1767 Drury Lane The School For Lovers, Lethe, The Lilliputian Camp No Yes No £229 9s 6d 76% N/A
16 Oct 1767 Covent Garden Jane Shore, Lethe, The Merry Sailors, New Pantomime Dance No No No £189 12s 6d N/A N/A
23 Nov 1767 Drury Lane The School For Lovers, Lethe, The Gardners Holiday, Hearts of Oak No No No Unknown N/A N/A
07 Mar 1768 Drury Lane The Alchemist, Lethe, The Wake No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
30 Apr 1768 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Lethe, The Irish Lilt No No Yes £192 N/A N/A
12 Apr 1769 Covent Garden King Lear, Lethe, The Wapping Landlady, Double Hornpipe No No Yes £244 12s 6d N/A N/A
24 Apr 1769 Drury Lane The Wonder, Lethe No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
02 Nov 1770 Covent Garden Love In A Village, Lethe No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Dec 1771 Covent Garden Every Man In His Humour, Lethe, True Blue No No No £136 1s 46% N/A
11 Jan 1772 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, Lethe, The Amusements of Strasburgh No No No £245 11s 64% N/A
14 Jan 1772 Drury Lane The Gamester, Lethe No No No £235 14s 62% N/A
16 Jan 1772 Drury Lane Zara, Lethe No No No £269 10s 6d N/A N/A
18 Jan 1772 Drury Lane Timon, Lethe No No No £210 2s 6d 67% N/A
19 Apr 1775 Drury Lane A Christmas Tale, Lethe, Return from the Universities of Parnassus No No Yes £236 3s N/A N/A
04 May 1785 Covent Garden Alexander The Great Or The Rival Queens, The Land of Enchantment, Lethe, Moderation and Alteration No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
16 Feb 1789 Drury Lane The Law Of Lombardy, Lethe or A Esop in the Shades No No Yes £340 5s 6d 44% N/A
18 May 1803 Drury Lane The Way to Keep Him, Lethe, Blue Beard Yes No Yes £382 10s 6d 52% N/A
06 Jun 1803 Drury Lane The Road to Ruin, If you wou'd, so wou'd not I, Lethe, Black Knights No No Yes £368 15s 56% N/A
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