The Belle's Stratagem (1782)

Author
Hannah Cowley
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
£29,996 3s £17,984 19s (60%) £12,011 4s (40%)
1732 - 1809
£29,996 3s - (100%) £17,984 19s (60%) £12,011 4s (40%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
139 89 50
1732 - 1809
139 89 50
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
26 Oct 1781 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, The Golden Pippin, The Sports of the Green No No No £100 6s 47% N/A
13 Nov 1781 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, Poor Vulcan, The Belle of the Village No No No £111 15s 45% N/A
06 Dec 1781 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, The Son in Law No No No £167 13s 53% N/A
21 Dec 1781 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, The Flitch of Bacon No No Yes £141 11s 6d 34% N/A
15 Jan 1782 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, The Choice of Harlequin No No No £224 18s 62% N/A
10 May 1782 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, Retaliation, The Wapping Landlady No No Yes £260 48% N/A
18 Oct 1782 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, Barnaby Brittle No No No £177 12s 6d 41% N/A
17 Dec 1782 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, The Quaker No No No £117 1s 31% N/A
25 Mar 1783 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, Rosina No No No £212 10s 59% N/A
12 Apr 1783 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, Three Weeks after Marriage, Damon and Musidora No No Yes £255 12s 6d 43% N/A
06 May 1783 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, Acis and Galatea No No Yes £251 9s 6d 31% N/A
30 May 1783 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, Poor Vulcan, The Rival Nymphs No No Yes £347 3s 6d 68% N/A
14 Jan 1784 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, The Son in Law No No No £154 19s 39% N/A
15 May 1784 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, The Flitch of Bacon, The Rival Nymphs, Let not Age No No Yes £229 3s 6d N/A N/A
24 Sep 1784 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, The Musical Lady No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Dec 1784 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, Rosina No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
18 Sep 1786 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, Love in a Camp or Patrick in Prussia No No No £242 5s 6d 100% N/A
22 Sep 1786 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, Love in a Camp, Four and Twenty Fiddlers All on a Row No Yes No £349 16s 100% N/A
04 May 1787 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, The Poor Soldier, The Indian's Ransom No No Yes £209 11s 67% N/A
22 Nov 1787 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, Hob in the Well No No No £155 12s 46% N/A
20 Dec 1787 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, The Farmer No No No £145 5s 6d N/A N/A
13 Mar 1788 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, The Farmer, The Piping Pedlar No No No £226 10s 6d 53% N/A
15 Oct 1788 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, Love in a Camp No No No £210 10s 6d 100% N/A
09 Dec 1788 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, The Farmer No No No £161 11s 43% N/A
10 Jun 1789 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, The Quaker, Mirth by Moonshine, Poor Jack No No Yes £157 12s 6d 65% N/A
23 Jan 1790 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, Harlequin's Chaplet No No No £209 7s 45% N/A
22 Mar 1790 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, The Spoiled Child No No Yes £352 18s 6d 39% N/A
07 Apr 1790 Drury Lane Easter Pastimes, The Belle's Stratagem, The Pannel No No Yes £262 9s 6d 31% N/A
27 May 1790 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, Piety in Pattens, Miss in her Teens, The Greenwich Pensioner, Vaudeville No No Yes £217 18s 48% N/A
05 Jun 1790 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, The Irish Widow, The Irish Bird Catchers No No Yes £253 2s 15% N/A
15 Sep 1790 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, The Deserter No No No £139 5s 100% N/A
15 Feb 1791 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, The Farmer, Collins's Ode on the Passions No No Yes £353 18s 48% N/A
21 Feb 1791 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, Two Strings to Your Bow No Yes No £372 14s 61% N/A
10 May 1791 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, The Follies of a Day No No Yes £248 9s 35% N/A
26 May 1791 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, The Padlock, Hornpipe No No Yes £69 9s N/A N/A
03 Jun 1791 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, Linco's Travels, The Cottage Maid, Hornpipe, Dance of Sailors No No Yes £202 9s 26% N/A
06 Feb 1792 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, Blue Beard No Yes No £369 15s 53% N/A
17 May 1792 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, The Citizen, Country Dance No No Yes £416 13s 45% N/A
05 Jun 1792 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, No Song No Supper No No No £194 9s 100% N/A
17 Oct 1792 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, The Poor Soldier No No No £306 12s 6d 100% N/A
21 Mar 1793 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, The Prize No No No £277 10s 55% N/A
10 Oct 1793 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, The Highland Reel, When in War on the Ocean No No No £193 16s 6d 100% N/A
10 Feb 1794 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, Oscar And Malvina, Irish Pipes, Old Towler, Harp No Yes No £511 8s 100% N/A
24 May 1794 Covent Garden The Fall Of Martinico Or Britannia Triumphant, The Belle's Stratagem, The Highland Reel, Minuet, Old Towler, Sally in Our Alley No No Yes £249 8s 6d 20% N/A
24 Jan 1795 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, Hercules and Omphale No No No £125 13s 45% N/A
13 May 1796 Drury Lane Love And Money, The Belle's Stratagem, No Song No Supper, Thro' the Wood Laddie No No Yes £155 11s 6d N/A N/A
30 May 1796 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, The Follies of a Day, The Purse, Ally Croker, Listen to the Voice of Love No No Yes £142 15s 6d N/A N/A
09 Jun 1796 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, The Sultan, Whither, My Love, Ah! Whither Art Thou Fled?, Ah che nel petto io sento, Ally Croker, From Shades of Night, This Fond Sorrow No No Yes £678 10s 6d 100% N/A
25 Oct 1796 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £268 2s 6d 68% N/A
16 Nov 1796 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, No Song No Supper, The Scotch Ghost No No No £151 8s 25% N/A
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