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 %
26 Nov 1756 Drury Lane Comus, A Duke and no Duke No No No £140 N/A N/A
08 Dec 1756 Covent Garden The Double Dealer, A Duke and no Duke No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
10 Dec 1756 Covent Garden The Humorous Lieutenant, A Duke and no Duke No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Jan 1757 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, A Duke and no Duke Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
27 Jan 1757 Covent Garden King Richard III, A Duke and no Duke No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Feb 1757 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, A Duke and no Duke, New Comic Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Feb 1757 Covent Garden The Fair Penitent, A Duke and no Duke No No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Mar 1757 Covent Garden Hamlet, A Duke and no Duke No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
26 Apr 1757 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, A Duke and no Duke, Hornpipe, Fingalian Revels, Louvre, Minuet, Old Scotch Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
13 Oct 1757 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, A Duke and No Duke, Fingalian Dance No No No £41 12s 23% N/A
26 Oct 1757 Drury Lane The Stratagem, A Duke and no Duke Yes No No £140 71% N/A
02 Nov 1757 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, A Duke and no Duke No No No £58 19s 25% N/A
25 Nov 1757 Covent Garden Oroonoko, A Duke and no Duke, Jovial Coopers No No No £52 18s 21% N/A
29 Nov 1757 Covent Garden She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not, A Duke and no Duke No Yes No £194 19s 6d 55% N/A
21 Dec 1757 Covent Garden The Suspicious Husband, A Duke and no Duke, The Jovial Coopers No No Yes £79 1s N/A N/A
27 Dec 1757 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, A Duke and no Duke No No No £122 7s 6d 47% N/A
09 Jan 1758 Covent Garden The Spanish Fryar, A Duke and no Duke, The Judgment of Paris, The Italian Peasants No No No £86 15s 35% N/A
30 Mar 1758 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, A Duke and no Duke, Sicilian Peasants, Tambourine No No Yes £223 3s 6d N/A N/A
01 May 1758 Covent Garden Macbeth, A Duke and no Duke No No Yes £246 18s 6d N/A N/A
11 May 1758 Covent Garden Wit Without Money, A Duke and no Duke, new Comic Dance Yes No Yes £77 3s 6d N/A N/A
21 Sep 1758 Drury Lane King Henry The Eighth, A Duke and no Duke No No No £99 6d 100% N/A
09 Oct 1758 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, A Duke and no Duke, Country Dance, Hornpipe No No No £123 8s 100% N/A
19 Oct 1758 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, A Duke and no Duke, The Threshers Yes No No £47 3s 23% N/A
28 Oct 1758 Drury Lane Romeo And Juliet, A Duke and no Duke No No No £119 17s 67% N/A
06 Nov 1758 Covent Garden Tamerlane, A Duke and no Duke, The Threshers Yes No No £68 15s 31% N/A
11 Nov 1758 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, A Duke and no Duke, The Fingalian Dance No No No £41 2s 22% N/A
30 Nov 1758 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, A Duke and no Duke No No No £62 9s 31% N/A
20 Dec 1758 Covent Garden Theodosius, A Duke and no Duke, The Fingalian Dance No No No £102 4s 6d N/A N/A
29 Dec 1758 Covent Garden The Rival Queens, A Duke and no Duke, The Threshers No No No £99 2s 40% N/A
29 Dec 1758 Drury Lane The Busy Body, A Duke and no Duke, The Prussian Camp No No No £147 6s 60% N/A
06 Jan 1759 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, A Duke and no Duke, The Threshers No No No £62 17s 6d 30% N/A
08 Jan 1759 Covent Garden The Rival Queens, A Duke and no Duke, Fingalian Dance, The Threshers No No No £107 16s 6d 39% N/A
19 Jan 1759 Covent Garden Zara, A Duke and no Duke, The Threshers Yes No No £50 18s 23% N/A
20 Feb 1759 Drury Lane The Wonder, A Duke and no Duke Yes No No £183 12s 63% N/A
20 Feb 1759 Covent Garden Cymbeline, A Duke and no Duke, The Threshers No No No £106 14s 37% N/A
28 Apr 1759 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, A Duke and no Duke, Fingalian Dance, The Threshers No No Yes £177 14s 13% N/A
16 May 1759 Covent Garden The Spanish Fryar, A Duke and no Duke, Tambourine, Hornpipe, Minuet, The Prussian Rope Makers No No Yes £124 10s N/A N/A
28 Sep 1759 Covent Garden The Constant Couple Or A Trip To The Jubilee, A Duke and no Duke No No No £59 14s 100% N/A
17 Oct 1759 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, A Duke and no Duke, Country Dance, Hornpipe, The Dutch Skipper, The Irish Turf-Cutters No No No £89 15s 6d 33% N/A
25 Oct 1759 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, A Duke and no Duke, Country Dance, Hornpipe, The Dutch Skipper, The Threshers No No No £108 8s 47% N/A
02 Nov 1759 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, A Duke and no Duke, Country Dance, Fingalian Dance, Hornpipe, The Dutch Skipper No No No £134 5s 49% N/A
09 Nov 1759 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, A Duke and no Duke, Country Dance, Fingalian Dance, Hornpipe, The Dutch Skipper No No No £111 5s 41% N/A
17 Nov 1759 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, A Duke and no Duke, Country Dance, Hornpipe, New Comic Dance No No No £105 6s 51% N/A
04 Jan 1760 Covent Garden The Mourning Bride, A Duke and no Duke, The Plowman, Comic Dance No No Yes £170 18s 42% N/A
12 Jan 1760 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, A Duke and no Duke, Hornpipe, Country Dance, The Plowman No No No £122 15s 6d 42% N/A
16 Feb 1760 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, A Duke and no Duke, Comic Dance No No No £132 6d N/A N/A
12 Apr 1760 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant, A Duke and no Duke, Fingalian Dance, The Threshers No No Yes £189 14s 6d N/A N/A
05 May 1760 Covent Garden King Henry V, A Duke and no Duke, The Drunken Peasant, The Fingalian Dance, The Lamp Lighters No No Yes £226 15s 6d N/A N/A
09 May 1760 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, A Duke and no Duke, The Fingalian Dance, The Threshers No No Yes £145 7s 6d N/A N/A
02 Oct 1760 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, A Duke and no Duke No No No £55 5s 6d N/A N/A
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