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 Oct 1760 Drury Lane The Rehearsal, Duke and no Duke No No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Oct 1760 Drury Lane King Richard III, A Duke and no Duke, The Cow Keepers No No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Oct 1760 Drury Lane The Minor, A Duke and no Duke, The Colliers No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Nov 1760 Covent Garden King Henry V With The Conquest Of The French At The Battle Of Agincourt, A Duke and no Duke, The Pedlar Tricked No No No £101 6d N/A N/A
24 Nov 1760 Drury Lane The Minor, A Duke and no Duke, The Colliers, The Mad Doctor No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Dec 1760 Covent Garden The Minor, A Duke and no Duke, Les Charboniers Yes No Yes £178 3s 6d N/A N/A
30 Dec 1760 Covent Garden Comus, A Duke and no Duke No No No £130 2s 6d N/A N/A
24 Jan 1761 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, A Duke and no Duke, The Colliers, New Comic Dance No No No £115 2s 6d N/A N/A
31 Mar 1761 Covent Garden The Rival Queens, A Duke and no Duke, Les Charboniers Yes No Yes £101 7s N/A N/A
10 Apr 1761 Drury Lane The Stratagem, A Duke and no Duke, Minuet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
15 Apr 1761 Drury Lane Every Man In His Humour, A Duke and No Duke, Mimic Comic Opera Song No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
18 May 1761 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, A Duke and no Duke, Hornpipe, Country Dance, Les Charboniers No No Yes £142 4s 6d N/A N/A
21 Sep 1761 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, A Duke and no Duke, The Hungarian Gambols or a Provincial Rendezvous No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Apr 1762 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, A Duke and no Duke, The Taylors Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
14 May 1762 Covent Garden Venice Preserved Or A Plot Discovered, A Duke and no Duke, The Cossacks, The Pleasures of Spring No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
04 Nov 1762 Drury Lane Tamerlane, A Duke and no Duke, Hearts of Oak, The Bavarian Shoemakers No No No Unknown N/A N/A
30 Sep 1763 Covent Garden Love Makes A Man Or The Fops Fortune, A Duke and no Duke No No No Unknown N/A N/A
03 Jan 1764 Covent Garden The Royal Convert, A Duke and no Duke, The Knife Grinders, Venus Revenged Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
05 Oct 1764 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, A Duke and no Duke, La Femme Maitresse, Les Mattelots Provencals No No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Jan 1765 Covent Garden Love In A Village, A Duke and no Duke, Rural Love No No No Unknown N/A N/A
08 Apr 1765 Covent Garden Love In A Village, A Duke and no Duke, Tambourine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
02 Oct 1765 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, A Duke and no Duke, The Venetian Gardeners No No No Unknown N/A N/A
26 Nov 1765 Covent Garden Love In A Village, A Duke and no Duke, The Calabrian Peasants Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 May 1767 Covent Garden The Maid Of The Mill, A Duke and no Duke, New Tambourine, New Pantomime Ballet Yes No No £93 1s 6d N/A N/A
27 Apr 1768 Covent Garden The Maid Of The Mill, A Duke and no Duke, The Wapping Landlady No No Yes £215 6d N/A N/A
31 May 1768 Covent Garden King Richard III, Duke and no Duke, Minuet, The Highland Reel No No Yes £152 13s 6d N/A N/A
09 May 1770 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, A Duke and no Duke, The Old Ground Young, Allemande No No Yes £204 8s N/A N/A
12 Oct 1770 Covent Garden The Earl Of Warwick, Duke and no Duke, The Lamplighter No No No Unknown N/A N/A
06 Dec 1770 Covent Garden Cyrus, True Blue, Duke and no Duke No No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Dec 1775 Covent Garden The Duenna, A Duke and no Duke, New Spanish Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
11 Dec 1775 Covent Garden The Duenna, A Duke and no Duke, New Spanish Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Dec 1775 Covent Garden The Duenna, A Duke and no Duke, The Irish Wedding No No No Unknown N/A N/A
02 Jan 1776 Covent Garden The Duenna, A Duke and no Duke, Mirth and Jollity No No No Unknown N/A N/A
08 Jan 1776 Covent Garden The Duenna, Duke and no Duke, Mirth and Jollity No No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Feb 1776 Covent Garden The Duenna, A Duke and no Duke, Rural Merriment No No No Unknown N/A N/A
24 Feb 1776 Covent Garden The Duenna, A Duke and no Duke, The Italian Gardeners No No No Unknown N/A N/A
11 Mar 1776 Covent Garden The Duenna, A Duke and no Duke, The Pilgrim No No No Unknown N/A N/A
03 May 1776 Covent Garden Edward And Eleonora, A Duke and no Duke, The Academy, Allemande, Cadrille, Court Minuet, Minuet, Rigadoon, The Humours of the NewMarket Races No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
13 Nov 1776 Covent Garden The Duenna, Duke and no Duke, The Irish Lilt No No No £278 19s 6d 52% N/A
27 Nov 1776 Covent Garden The Duenna, Duke and no Duke, Pastoral Dance No No No £254 19s 6d 58% N/A
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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