The Royal Merchant; or, Beggar's Bush (1705)

Author
Anonymous/unknown
Author
John Fletcher
Work Type
Mainpiece
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
£1,272 5s £1,272 5s (100%) £0 (0%)
1732 - 1809
£1,272 5s - (100%) £1,272 5s (100%) £0 (0%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
62 59 3
1732 - 1809
62 59 3
Notes
A revision of John Fletcher's 'The Beggar's Bush' (c.1622). Thomas Hull wrote a comic opera version in 1767.
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
02 Apr 1733 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant Or Beggars Bush, A Journey to Bristol or The Honest Welshman, Two Pierrots, Medley or Drunken Man, Scottish Dance Yes No Yes £203 5s 6d N/A N/A
15 May 1733 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant, Flora, Tambourine, Fingalian, Mock Minuet No No Yes £66 19s N/A N/A
17 Dec 1733 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant Or Beggars Bush, The Mock Lawyer, Single Dance, French Sailor and his Lass, The Nassau No No No Unknown N/A N/A
29 Jan 1734 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant, Perseus and Andromeda No No No Unknown N/A N/A
13 Feb 1735 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant Or The Beggars Bush, Perseus and Andromeda or The Cheats of Harlequin No No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Apr 1735 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant, Richmond Maggot, Tippling Philosophers, Pastoral Dance, Scots Dance, Song in Praise of Old English Roast Beef No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
31 Oct 1735 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant Or The Beggars Bush, Apollo and Daphne, The Drunken Swiss No No No £32 6s 6d N/A N/A
03 Feb 1736 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant, The Royal Chace No No No £74 18s 6d N/A N/A
14 May 1736 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant, The Cheats of Scapin, New Serious Dance, Chancon a Boire, New Comic Dance, Tambourine No No Yes £172 16s 6d N/A N/A
20 Dec 1736 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant Or The Beggars Bush, The Rape of Proserpine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
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