Portrait of Cervantes, or the Plotting Lovers (1808)

Author
Robert William Elliston
Author
Michel Dieulafoy
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
£3,700 8s 6d £3,700 8s 6d (100%) £0 (0%)
1732 - 1809
£3,700 8s 6d - (100%) £3,700 8s 6d (100%) £0 (0%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
13 13 0
1732 - 1809
13 13 0
Notes
Based on Michel Dieulafoy's "La Portrait du Cervantes" (1802). Elliston used a pseudonym 'Greffulhe'.
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
27 Jun 1808 Covent Garden Macbeth, Portrait of Cervantes, or the Plotting Lovers No No No Unknown N/A N/A
14 Sep 1808 Covent Garden The Woodman, The Portrait of Cervantes No No No £281 8s 100% N/A
19 Sep 1808 Covent Garden Pizarro, The Portrait of Cervantes No No No £475 2s 6d 100% N/A
28 Sep 1808 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Portrait of Cervantes No No No £360 7s 100% N/A
03 Oct 1808 Covent Garden Macbeth, The Portrait of Cervantes No No No £488 100% N/A
21 Oct 1808 Covent Garden John Bull, The Portrait of Cervantes No No No £209 16s 6d 100% N/A
12 Nov 1808 Covent Garden The Exile, Portrait of Cervantes No No No £222 13s 42% N/A
22 Nov 1808 Covent Garden The Exile, Portrait of Cervantes No No No £384 64% N/A
30 Nov 1808 Covent Garden The Exile, Portrait of Cervantes No No No £363 16s 60% N/A
21 Dec 1808 Covent Garden Othello, Portrait of Cervantes No No No £196 50% N/A
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