A Duke and No Duke (1684)

Author
Nahum Tate
Author
Aston Cokayne
Work Type
Afterpiece
Genre
Farce
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
£18,530 14s £9,071 4s (49%) £9,459 10s (51%)
1732 - 1809
£18,530 14s - (100%) £9,071 4s (49%) £9,459 10s (51%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
203 125 78
1732 - 1809
203 125 78
Notes
Based on Aston Cokayne's 'Trappolin Supposed a Prince' (1658).
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
03 May 1784 Drury Lane Twelfth Night, A Pasticcio, Duke and No Duke, Gramachree Molly, The Sportsmen's Return, They say there is an Echo here No No Yes £227 18s 22% N/A
10 May 1784 Drury Lane Love Makes A Man Or The Fops Fortune, A Medley, Duke and No Duke, The Sportsmen's Return, The Highland Laddie, They say there is an Echo there, Gramachree Molly, Bucks have at ye all, The Jovial Sailors No No Yes £135 2s 27% N/A
14 May 1784 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Duke and No Duke, The Minuet de la Cour, Gramachree Molly No No Yes £222 13s 12% N/A
18 Apr 1786 Covent Garden The Plain Dealer, Duke and No Duke, Hogarth's March to Finchley, Four and Twenty Fidlers All on a Row No No Yes £353 72% N/A
26 Apr 1786 Covent Garden The Grecian Daughter, Duke and No Duke, The Wapping Landlady No No Yes £152 13s 39% N/A
31 May 1786 Covent Garden Robin Hood, Duke and No Duke, Leap Year No No Yes £311 5s 48% N/A
06 Feb 1787 Covent Garden He Would Be A Soldier, Duke and No Duke, The Wapping Landlady No No No £102 6s 33% N/A
14 May 1788 Drury Lane The Way Of The World, The Stone Eater, Duke and No Duke No No Yes £271 11s 34% N/A
22 May 1788 Drury Lane The Confederacy, The Stone Eater, Duke and No Duke No No Yes £179 7s 13% N/A
03 Jun 1788 Drury Lane The Jealous Wife, Duke and No Duke, The Irish Fair, Ma Chere Amie No No Yes £180 3s 6d 31% N/A
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