Robin Hood; or, Sherwood Forest (1784) (1784)

Author
Leonard Macnally
Author
Edward Lysaght
Composer
William Shield
Work Type
Mainpiece
Genre
Comedy
Performance Medium
Musical
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
£21,353 10s £20,497 3s (96%) £856 7s (4%)
1732 - 1809
£21,353 10s - (100%) £20,497 3s (96%) £856 7s (4%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
102 100 2
1732 - 1809
102 100 2
Notes
First performed as a mainpiece in 1784, performed as an afterpiece in 1789.
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
12 Oct 1791 Covent Garden Wild Oats Or The Strolling Gentlemen, Robin Hood No No No £212 10s 100% N/A
29 Oct 1791 Covent Garden Rose And Colin, The Dramatist, Robin Hood No No No £146 14s 33% N/A
31 Mar 1792 Covent Garden Fashionable Levities, A Peep behind the Curtain or The New Rehearsal, Robin Hood No No Yes £347 5s 6d 39% N/A
11 Apr 1792 Covent Garden The Road To Ruin, Robin Hood No No No £207 5s 6d 48% N/A
28 Apr 1792 Covent Garden Notoriety, Robin Hood, She Couldn't Help It, Collins's Ode on the Passions, Dramatic Imitations No No Yes £202 19s 6d 37% N/A
12 Jun 1793 Covent Garden The Road To Ruin, Robin Hood, Salley in Our Alley No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
20 Sep 1793 Covent Garden The Suspicious Husband, Robin Hood No No No £241 14s 100% N/A
14 Nov 1793 Covent Garden The Siege Of Berwick, Robin Hood, The Drunken Swiss No No No £211 3s 100% N/A
02 May 1794 Covent Garden Robin Hood, Naples Bay or The British Seamen at Anchor, The Follies Of A Day, Medley Hornpipe, Black Eyed Susan No No Yes £396 12s 6d 22% N/A
08 May 1794 Covent Garden Robin Hood, Harlequin And Faustus No No No £110 11s 6d 22% N/A
07 Oct 1794 Covent Garden Cymbeline, Robin Hood, Hark the Lark No No No £228 1s 6d 47% N/A
08 Jun 1795 Covent Garden The Dramatist, Robin Hood, Old Towler, The Storm No No Yes £433 16s 6d 19% N/A
03 Oct 1796 Covent Garden The Jew, Robin Hood No No No £207 18s 6d 35% N/A
12 Dec 1796 Covent Garden Othello, Robin Hood No No No £102 18s 24% N/A
06 Jun 1797 Drury Lane The Child Of Nature, Robin Hood, The Devil to Pay, The Storm No No Yes £410 18s 88% N/A
16 Apr 1798 Covent Garden The Raft, Douglas, Robin Hood No No No £150 17s 26% N/A
08 Oct 1798 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, Robin Hood, Solemn Dirge No No No £179 6d 44% N/A
24 Jan 1799 Covent Garden Lovers' Vows, Robin Hood No No No £337 3s 48% N/A
25 Sep 1799 Covent Garden The Votary Of Wealth, Robin Hood No No No £255 2s 100% N/A
12 Nov 1799 Covent Garden Management, Robin Hood No No No £278 10s 61% N/A
03 Jun 1800 Drury Lane She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not, Robin Hood, The Scotch Ghost Yes No Yes £445 9s 79% N/A
15 Oct 1800 Covent Garden The Road to Ruin, Robin Hood No No No £289 15s 6d 100% N/A
30 Sep 1801 Covent Garden The Beaux Stratagem, Robin Hood No No No £279 100% N/A
13 Oct 1802 Covent Garden The Man of the World, Robin Hood No No No £260 9s 6d 58% N/A
05 Oct 1804 Covent Garden The Man of the World, Robin Hood No No No £330 14s 6d 100% N/A
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