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 %
19 May 1797 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, Don Juan or The Libertine Destroyed No No Yes £339 11s 56% N/A
10 Jun 1797 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, The Waterman, The Honest Thieves, The Heaving of The Lead, The Storm No No Yes £229 11s 72% N/A
10 Nov 1797 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, A Trip to the Nore, My Grandmother, Dance of Sailors, Hornpipe, Minuet No No No £295 4s 66% N/A
14 Nov 1797 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, A Trip to the Nore, High Life below Stairs, Minuet, Mock Minuet No No No £209 7s 6d 59% N/A
22 Feb 1798 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, Blue Beard No No No £335 15s 42% N/A
11 Jan 1799 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, The Humourist No No No £133 11s 6d 32% N/A
26 Jan 1799 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, Feudal Times No No No £342 12s 68% N/A
09 Feb 1799 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, Feudal Times No No No £147 7s 6d 37% N/A
09 May 1799 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, Sylvester Daggerwood, The Miser, Orphan Bess the Beggar Girl, The Country Club No No Yes £550 19s 6d 32% N/A
02 Jul 1799 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, The Virgin Unmasked No No Yes £31 14s N/A N/A
29 Oct 1799 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, Blue Beard No No No £193 17s 6d 55% N/A
20 Nov 1799 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, Blue Beard No No No £183 6d 27% N/A
01 Jan 1800 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, Lodoiska No No No £205 11s 6d 57% N/A
27 Mar 1800 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, Two Strings to Your Bow, Minuet No Yes No £353 14s 59% N/A
16 Jun 1800 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, The Shipwreck, Crazy Jane No No Yes £82 11s 6d N/A N/A
19 Dec 1800 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, Robinson Crusoe, Half an Hour after Supper No No No £117 12s 32% N/A
11 Feb 1801 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, Our Dancing Days, My Grandmother No No No £140 12s 33% N/A
28 May 1801 Drury Lane Belles Stratagem, Katherine and Petruchio No No Yes £232 6s 42% N/A
15 Oct 1801 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, The Deserter No No No £143 9s 38% N/A
05 Jan 1803 Drury Lane Belle's Strategem, Love & Magic No No No £355 13s 54% N/A
07 Jan 1803 Drury Lane Stratagem, Love & Magic No No No £264 18s 46% N/A
16 May 1803 Drury Lane Belle's Stratagem, Midas No No Yes £480 13s 6d 34% N/A
26 Apr 1804 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, The Liar No No No £118 16s 6d 45% N/A
25 Sep 1804 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, Lingo in Love; or, The Scholar a Match for the Master, No Song No Supper No No No £316 7s 6d 100% N/A
20 Oct 1804 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, The Dash; or, Who But He? No No No £326 2s 6d 65% N/A
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