The Child of Nature (1788)

Author
Elizabeth Inchbald
Work Type
Mainpiece
Genre
Romance
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
£15,651 14s £7,851 2s (50.2%) £7,800 12s (49.8%)
1732 - 1809
£15,651 14s - (100%) £7,851 2s (50.2%) £7,800 12s (49.8%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
76 44 32
1732 - 1809
76 44 32
Notes
Translated from the comtesse de Genlis's 'Zélie, ou l'Ingénue'.
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
14 Mar 1796 Drury Lane The Child Of Nature, The Humourist, No Song No Supper No No No £265 2s 45% N/A
20 Sep 1796 Drury Lane The Prize Or two, The Child of Nature, High Life below Stairs, Mock Minuet No No No £281 6s 100% N/A
01 Dec 1796 Drury Lane Richard Coeur De Lion, The Child of Nature, The Apprentice, The Scotch Ghost No No No £186 9s 54% N/A
15 May 1797 Drury Lane The Child Of Nature, The Fairy Festival, The Wandering Jew or Loves Masquerade No No No £233 7s 67% 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
08 Jun 1798 Drury Lane The Child Of Nature, The Critic, The Shipwreck, I Never Lov'd Any Dear Mary But You, The Fight Off Camperdown, The Town and Country No No Yes £642 18s 100% N/A
11 Jun 1798 Covent Garden The Farmer, The Child of Nature, Peggy's Love, La Vengeance d'Amour No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
31 Jan 1799 Drury Lane The Child Of Nature, The Wedding Day, Feudal Times No No No £262 15s 6d 51% N/A
19 Feb 1799 Drury Lane The Child Of Nature, The Devil to Pay, Feudal Times No No No £271 6d 49% N/A
02 May 1799 Drury Lane The Child Of Nature, Blue Beard, The Return of Jemmy, The Agreeable Surprise No No Yes £497 18s 6d 60% N/A
23 Apr 1800 Covent Garden Inkle And Yarico, The Child of Nature, The Soldier's Festival or The Night before the Battle, Negro Dance, The Tight Little Island No No Yes £393 9s 6d 53% N/A
13 May 1800 Covent Garden Cymbeline King Of Britain, The Child of Nature, The Soldier's Festival, Hark the Lark, Sally in Our Alley, Young William was a Seaman True No No Yes £272 4s 6d 42% N/A
23 May 1800 Covent Garden The Child Of Nature, The Dramatist, The Mouth of the Nile, Hornpipe, Scotch Pas Deux, The Minuet de la Cour No No Yes £424 9s 6d 16% N/A
12 Jun 1800 Drury Lane The Child Of Nature, High Life below Stairs, Rosina, The Scotch Ghost No No Yes £76 1s 6d N/A N/A
18 Jun 1800 Drury Lane The Child Of Nature, Othello Moor of Venice, Crazy Jane, Imitations No No Yes £97 3s N/A N/A
17 Sep 1800 Covent Garden Abroad and at Home, The Child of Nature No No No £203 19s 6d 100% N/A
01 Dec 1801 Covent Garden The Duenna, The Child of Nature No No No £392 2s 6d 79% N/A
02 Mar 1802 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Child of Nature No No No £361 12s 60% N/A
12 Jun 1802 Drury Lane Child of Nature, Romp, Don Juan No No Yes £155 13s 6d N/A N/A
23 Dec 1802 Drury Lane The Children in the Wood, Midas, Child of Nature No No No £178 9s 43% N/A
10 Mar 1803 Drury Lane The Hero of the North, The Child of Nature No No No £301 15s 6d 40% N/A
21 May 1804 Drury Lane The Child of Nature, Midas, Achille et Deidamie, The Village Festival, The Hornpipe from the Ballet of Barbara and Allen No No Yes £517 4s 50% N/A
30 May 1804 Drury Lane Midas, The Child of Nature, The Caravan No No Yes £165 10s 6d 49% N/A
12 Dec 1804 Covent Garden Thirty Thousand; or, Who's the Richest?, The Child of Nature No No No £188 6s 46% N/A
03 Jan 1807 Drury Lane The Child of Nature, Tekeli; or, The Siege of Montgatz, The Enchanters; or, Harlequin Sultaun No No No £239 17s 44% N/A
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