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 %
18 Jan 1777 Covent Garden Merope, The Golden Pippin, The Merry Sailors No No No £181 16s 6d 44% N/A
20 Jan 1777 Covent Garden Merope, Comus, Sweet Echo No No No £209 2s 6d N/A N/A
22 Jan 1777 Drury Lane Merope, Harlequin's Invasion No No No £205 4s 42% N/A
19 Dec 1778 Drury Lane Merope, Aesop No No No £151 2s 6d N/A N/A
08 Jan 1779 Drury Lane Merope, The Wonders of Derbyshire or Harlequin in the Peak No No No £225 19s N/A N/A
25 Jan 1779 Drury Lane Merope, The Wonders of Derbyshire No No No £174 17s N/A N/A
15 Jan 1787 Covent Garden Merope, The Enchanted Castle No No No £187 3s 49% N/A
29 Nov 1797 Covent Garden Merope, The Round Tower No No No £175 5s 53% N/A
22 Feb 1806 Covent Garden Merope, Rugantino; or, the Bravo of Venice No No No £297 12s 6d 60% N/A
01 Mar 1806 Drury Lane Merope, The Doctor and the Apothecary No No No £240 18s 6d 37% N/A
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