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
£2,219 19s £2,219 19s (100%) £0 (0%)
1732 - 1809
£2,219 19s - (100%) £2,219 19s (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 %
26 Dec 1740 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant, Orpheus and Eurydice No No No £136 19s N/A N/A
26 Nov 1741 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
28 Dec 1741 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant, Orpheus and Eurydice No No No Unknown N/A N/A
11 May 1742 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant, The King and Miller of Mansfield, Comic Dance, Minuet, Rigadone Provencale No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
21 Dec 1742 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant Or The Beggars Bush, The Rape of Proserpine with the Birth and Adventures of Harlequin No No No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Dec 1742 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant, The Rape of Proserpine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
17 Feb 1743 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant, The Rape of Proserpine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Apr 1743 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant, The Royal Chace, Serious Dance, Louvre, Minuet, New Comic Dance, Peasants No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
05 Oct 1743 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant Or The Beggars Bush, The Devil to Pay or the Wives Metamorphosed, Serious Ballet, New Scotch Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Dec 1743 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant, The Lottery, Scotch Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
14 Feb 1744 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant, Orpheus and Eurydice No No No Unknown N/A N/A
30 Apr 1744 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant, The Virgin Unmasked, Scotch Dance, To Arms, Britons Strike Home No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
15 Oct 1744 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant Or The Beggars Bush, The Lottery, Le Gondalier, Scotch Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
16 Oct 1745 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant Or The Beggars Bush, Pyramus and Thisbe No No No Unknown N/A N/A
23 Dec 1745 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant, Orpheus and Eurydice No No No Unknown N/A N/A
03 May 1746 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant, The What Dye Call It No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
17 Mar 1747 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant Or The Beggars Bush, Orpheus and Eurydice No No No £76 12s N/A N/A
27 Jan 1748 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant Or The Beggars Bush, The Royal Chace Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Feb 1748 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant, Damon and Phillida, Ah se amanti fasti mai felice Belve, Go Rose, My Chloe's Bosom Grace, Tis' Liberty, Dear Liberty No No No Unknown N/A N/A
16 Nov 1748 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant Or The Beggars Bush, The Royal Chace or Harlequin Skeleton No No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Jan 1749 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant, The Royal Chace No No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Nov 1749 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant Or The Beggars Bush, Miss in Her Teens No No No Unknown N/A N/A
02 Dec 1749 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant, Perseus and Andromeda No No No £84 4s 6d 37% N/A
26 Feb 1750 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant, The Fair No No No £103 2s 6d 39% N/A
14 Nov 1751 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant Or The Beggars Bush, The Necromancer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
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