The Ghost (1769)

Work Type
Afterpiece
Genre
Farce
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
£5,147 7s 6d £4,804 13s 6d (93.3%) £342 14s (6.7%)
1732 - 1809
£5,147 7s 6d - (100%) £4,804 13s 6d (93.3%) £342 14s (6.7%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
29 21 8
1732 - 1809
29 21 8
Notes
Taken from Susanna Centlivre's 'The Man's Bewitched' (1709).
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
10 Apr 1769 Drury Lane The Orphan, The Ghost, Linco's Travels, New Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
04 Oct 1769 Drury Lane Cymon, The Ghost No No No Unknown N/A N/A
23 Nov 1770 Drury Lane The Suspicious Husband, The Ghost No No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Jan 1771 Drury Lane King Arthur, The Ghost No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
17 Jan 1771 Drury Lane King Arthur, The Ghost No No No Unknown N/A N/A
05 Feb 1771 Drury Lane The West Indian, The Ghost No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
23 Apr 1783 Covent Garden The Knight Of Malta Or The Humourous Dane, The Ghost or The Devil to do about Her, Damon and Musidora No No Yes £292 13s 69% N/A
21 May 1783 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Ghost, The Belle of the Village, The Huntsman's Sweet Hollo No No Yes £204 2s N/A N/A
21 Jan 1793 Drury Lane Artaxerxes, The Ghost No No No £201 18s 38% N/A
25 Jan 1793 Drury Lane Cymon, The Ghost No No No £140 16s 38% N/A