Meropé (1749)

Author
Aaron Hill
Author
Voltaire
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
£10,756 11s £1,298 17s (12.1%) £9,457 14s (87.9%)
1732 - 1809
£10,756 11s - (100%) £1,298 17s (12.1%) £9,457 14s (87.9%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
70 6 64
1732 - 1809
70 6 64
Notes
Adapted and translated from Voltaire's 'Mérope' (1743), itself a reworking of Italian Scipione Maffei's 'Merope' (1713).
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
17 Apr 1754 Drury Lane Merope, The Englishman in Paris Yes No Yes £209 N/A N/A
28 Oct 1755 Drury Lane Merope, The Devil to Pay Yes No No £160 N/A N/A
30 Oct 1755 Drury Lane Merope, The Englishman in Paris, Lilliputian Sailors No No No £170 N/A N/A
03 Nov 1755 Drury Lane Merope, A Duke and no Duke No No No £130 N/A N/A
10 Nov 1755 Drury Lane Merope, The Anatomist, Lilliputian Sailors No No No £140 N/A N/A
19 Nov 1755 Drury Lane Merope, Fortunatus No No No £100 N/A N/A
03 Dec 1755 Drury Lane Merope, The Genii, New Pantomime Dance No No No £170 N/A N/A
22 Jan 1756 Drury Lane Merope, The Englishman in Paris No No Yes £260 N/A N/A
02 Feb 1756 Drury Lane Merope, The Apprentice No No No £140 N/A N/A
06 May 1756 Drury Lane Merope, The Oracle, Sailors Song, The Drunken Peasant No No Yes £230 N/A N/A
02 Oct 1756 Drury Lane Merope, The Englishman in Paris Yes No No £120 100% N/A
03 Dec 1756 Drury Lane Merope, Lilliput No Yes No £210 N/A N/A
31 Dec 1756 Drury Lane Merope, Mercury Harlequin Yes No No £180 N/A N/A
22 Jan 1757 Drury Lane Merope, The Reprisal or The Tars of Old England No No No £200 N/A N/A
15 Feb 1757 Drury Lane Merope, The Author Yes No No £90 N/A N/A
13 May 1757 Drury Lane Merope, Mercury Harlequin No No Yes £90 N/A N/A
15 Oct 1757 Drury Lane Merope, The Author No No No £120 62% N/A
13 Jan 1758 Drury Lane Merope, Queen Mab No No No £190 75% N/A
12 Apr 1758 Drury Lane Merope, The Upholsterer No No No £90 65% N/A
13 Dec 1758 Drury Lane Merope, Lethe No No Yes £160 N/A N/A
03 Feb 1759 Drury Lane Merope, The Guardian No No Yes £285 N/A N/A
01 Nov 1759 Drury Lane Merope, High Life Below Stairs No No No £100 41% N/A
07 Jan 1760 Drury Lane Merope, Harlequin's Invasion No No No £160 55% N/A
11 Oct 1760 Drury Lane Merope, Harlequin's Invasion with Additions and Alterations No No No Unknown N/A N/A
05 Dec 1760 Drury Lane Merope, Polly Honeycomb Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
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