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 %
03 Feb 1752 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant Or The Beggars Bush, The King and Miller, Grand Comic Ballet No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Feb 1752 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
27 Nov 1752 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant Or The Beggars Bush, The Fair, Les Charboniers, Les Sabotiers Tyrolese No No No Unknown N/A N/A
14 Feb 1753 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant, Harlequin Sorcerer, Il Pastore No No No Unknown N/A N/A
26 Dec 1753 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant Or The Beggars Bush, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Mar 1760 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant Or The Beggars Bush, The Dutch Skipper, A Day of Taste; or, London Raree Show, The English Sailors in America Yes No Yes £342 8s N/A N/A
12 Apr 1760 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant, A Duke and no Duke, Fingalian Dance, The Threshers No No Yes £189 14s 6d N/A N/A
14 May 1760 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant, The Siege of Quebec or Harlequin Engineer, The Drunken Peasant, The Fingalian Dance No No Yes £160 N/A N/A
07 Jan 1761 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant Or The Beggars Bush, The Rape of Proserpine No No No £176 16s N/A N/A
29 Apr 1761 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant, The Devil to Pay, The New Comic Dance No No Yes £224 15s N/A N/A
09 Nov 1761 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant Or The Beggars Bush, The Fair No No No £122 7s N/A N/A
16 Dec 1761 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant, Lethe, The Pedlar Tricked No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
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