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 %
19 Mar 1753 Drury Lane Merope, The Chaplet No No Yes £250 N/A N/A
10 Apr 1753 Drury Lane Merope, The Double Disappointment Yes No Yes £220 N/A N/A
19 May 1753 Drury Lane Merope, The Genii Yes No No £160 N/A N/A
23 Oct 1753 Drury Lane Merope, Lethe No No No £120 N/A N/A
24 Nov 1753 Drury Lane Merope, Lethe Yes No No £150 N/A N/A
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
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