Harlequin and Faustus; or, The Devil will have His Own (1793)

Author
James Wild
Composer
William Shield
Work Type
Afterpiece
Genre
Pantomime
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
£19,208 6s £19,208 6s (100%) £0 (0%)
1732 - 1809
£19,208 6s - (100%) £19,208 6s (100%) £0 (0%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
61 61 0
1732 - 1809
61 61 0
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
08 May 1794 Covent Garden Robin Hood, Harlequin And Faustus No No No £110 11s 6d 22% N/A
13 Jun 1794 Covent Garden The School For Wives, A Loyal Effusion, Harlequin And Faustus Yes No Yes £357 10s 25% N/A
22 Sep 1794 Covent Garden Macbeth, Harlequin and Faustus or The Devil will have his Own No No No £312 7s 100% N/A
29 Sep 1794 Covent Garden Hamlet, Harlequin and Faustus, Dirge [music by Shield, words from Shakespeare] No No No £320 17s 100% N/A
06 Oct 1794 Covent Garden Fontainville Forest, Harlequin and Faustus No No No £132 2s 6d 36% N/A
13 Oct 1794 Covent Garden Hamlet, Harlequin and Faustus, Dirge [music by Shield, words from Shakespeare] No No No £204 1s 41% N/A
25 May 1795 Covent Garden How To Grow Rich, British Fortitude and Hibernian Friendship or An Escape from France, Harlequin and Faustus, The Storm, At Dawn Of Life Our Vows Were Plighted, Four and Twenty Fidlers, I was Called Knowing Joey, Our Simple Tale Thus Ended, Thursday in the Morn the Nineteenth of May, The Turbaned Turk Who Scorns The World, To be Sure I Don't Love in My Heart, When Foaming Waves Contrary Beat No No Yes £305 18s 6d 36% N/A
12 Jun 1795 Covent Garden The School For Arrogance, Catharine and Petruchio, Harlequin and Faustus, The Mid Watch, Sally in Our Alley No No Yes £354 5s 6d 100% N/A
16 Jun 1795 Covent Garden The Woodman, The Frolics of an Hour, Harlequin and Faustus, Old Towler, Imitations No No Yes £436 19s 100% N/A
28 May 1798 Covent Garden Such Things Are, Starboard Watch, Harlequin and Faustus or The Devil will have his Own, The High Mettled Racer, Performances on the Slack Rope, Patents All the Rage, The Beggar, The Wind Blew Fresh and Fair No No Yes £288 18s 44% N/A
01 Jun 1798 Covent Garden Inkle And Yarico, Harlequin and Faustus, Black Ey'd Susan, Old Towler, Sally in Our Alley, The Beggar No No Yes £465 3s 6d N/A N/A
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