Tancred and Sigismunda (1745)

Author
James Thomson
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
£12,766 2s 7d £5,283 11s (41.4%) £7,482 11s 7d (58.6%)
1732 - 1809
£12,766 2s 7d - (100%) £5,283 11s (41.4%) £7,482 11s 7d (58.6%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
89 32 57
1732 - 1809
89 32 57
Notes
Inspired by Boccaccio's The Decameron.
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
08 Apr 1756 Drury Lane Tancred And Sigismunda, Chaplet No No Yes £210 N/A N/A
07 Apr 1758 Drury Lane Tancred And Sigismunda, The Apprentice, The Italian Peasants Yes No Yes £300 N/A N/A
14 Oct 1758 Covent Garden Tancred And Sigismunda, Catherine and Petruchio, The Threshers No No No £66 3s 6d 30% N/A
16 Oct 1758 Covent Garden Tancred And Sigismunda, The Englishman Returned from Paris, The Threshers No No No £114 16s 100% N/A
18 Oct 1758 Covent Garden Tancred And Sigismunda, The Virgin Unmasked, The Threshers No No No £42 9s 6d 27% N/A
28 Oct 1758 Covent Garden Tancred And Sigismunda, Harlequin Skeleton No No No £57 14s 6d 33% N/A
28 Nov 1758 Covent Garden Tancred And Sigismunda, Harlequin Skeleton No No No £47 28% N/A
10 Mar 1759 Covent Garden Tancred And Sigismunda, The Rape of Proserpine No No No £235 13s 61% N/A
15 Mar 1759 Covent Garden Tancred And Sigismunda, The Rape of Proserpine Yes No No £228 12s 56% N/A
19 Apr 1759 Drury Lane Tancred And Sigismunda, Lethe No No Yes £170 N/A N/A
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