The Country Wife (1765)

Author
John Lee
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
£6,830 2s £6,830 2s (100%) £0 (0%)
1732 - 1809
£6,830 2s - (100%) £6,830 2s (100%) £0 (0%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
41 33 8
1732 - 1809
41 33 8
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
03 Jan 1777 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Country Wife, Hornpipe, Country Dance No No No £219 5s 50% N/A
28 Jan 1777 Covent Garden The Duenna, The Country Wife, The Villagers No No No £256 4s 62% N/A
31 Jan 1777 Covent Garden Artaxerxes, The Country Wife, The Villagers No No No £233 11s 49% N/A
04 Feb 1777 Covent Garden The Duenna, The Country Wife, The Frolick No No No £273 10s 6d 59% N/A
10 Feb 1777 Covent Garden The Duenna, The Country Wife No No No £246 12s 6d 53% N/A
04 Apr 1777 Covent Garden The Duenna, The Country Wife, Minuet de la Cour No No No £278 5s 57% N/A
09 Apr 1777 Covent Garden The Duenna, The Country Wife, Hunting Dance No No No £239 17s 6d 48% N/A
26 Apr 1777 Covent Garden The Suspicious Husband, The Country Wife, The Serenade, Pastoral Dance, Minuet No No Yes £176 19s 6d 58% N/A
06 May 1777 Covent Garden The Grecian Daughter, The Country Wife, All in the Downs, A Welcome to the Spring No No Yes £197 18s 64% N/A
23 Dec 1779 Covent Garden The Duenna, The Country Wife, The Dockyard No No No £90 2s 32% N/A