Rule Britannia ()

Work Type
N/A
Genre
Song
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
£6,443 9s £3,641 6d (56.5%) £2,802 8s 6d (43.5%)
1732 - 1809
£6,443 9s - (100%) £3,641 6d (56.5%) £2,802 8s 6d (43.5%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
41 23 18
1732 - 1809
41 23 18
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
31 Oct 1745 Drury Lane The Nonjuror, The Debauchees, Grand Comic Dance, Britons Never Will Be Slaves No No No £70 6s N/A N/A
01 Nov 1745 Drury Lane The Constant Couple Or A Trip To The Jubilee, The Debauchees, Britons Never Will Be Slaves No No No £85 12s N/A N/A
02 Apr 1755 Drury Lane The Stratagem, Miss in Her Teens, Hooly and Fairly, Hornpipe, Britons Strike Home, Rule Britannia Yes No Yes £300 N/A N/A
03 Apr 1755 Drury Lane Every Man In His Humour, The Englishman in Paris, Three Sabatinis, Rule Britannia, Britons Strike Home No No Yes £190 N/A N/A
09 Apr 1755 Covent Garden Comus, The Cheats of Scapin, Rule Britannia, Britons Strike Home Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
10 Apr 1755 Drury Lane Creusa, The Devil to Pay, Comic Dance, Rule Britannia, New Comic Dance No No Yes £130 N/A N/A
24 Apr 1755 Drury Lane The Inconstant, The King and the Miller of Mansfield, The Running Footmen, Rule Britannia, Comic Dance, Louvre, The Minuet No No Yes £130 N/A N/A
12 May 1755 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, The Cheats of Scapin, Rule Britannia, Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
09 Nov 1776 Drury Lane The Fair Quaker Or The Humours Of The Navy, A Christmas Tale, Dance of Sailors, Rule Britannia No No No £146 1s 34% N/A
04 Jun 1777 Drury Lane The Fair Quaker, The Devil to Pay, Comic Dance, Dance of Sailors, Rule Britannia No No Yes £224 9s 100% N/A
10 May 1781 Drury Lane The Fair Quaker Or The Humours Of The Navy, A Fete, Who's the Dupe?, The Butterfly, Rule Britannia No No Yes £203 4s 27% N/A
17 May 1782 Covent Garden The Chapter Of Accidents, All the Worlds a Stage, Anticipation or Harlequin's Visit to Greenwich on Whit Monday (pantomimical dance), Four and Twenty Fiddlers All on a Row, Rule Britannia No No Yes £259 3s 38% N/A
02 May 1783 Drury Lane The Fair Quaker Or The Humours Of The Navy, All the Worlds a Stage, The Merry Sailors, Rule Britannia, The Picture of a Playhouse or Bucks have at Ye All, Double Hornpipe No No Yes £165 12s 45% N/A
27 Sep 1783 Drury Lane The Fair Quaker Or The Humours Of The Navy, The Gentle Shepherd, Dance of Sailors, Rule Britannia No No No £166 7s 6d 100% N/A
06 Jan 1785 Drury Lane The Fair Quaker Or The Humours Of The Navy, The Irish Widow, Rule Britannia No No No £61 6d N/A N/A
24 Apr 1793 Covent Garden Such Things Are, The Soldier's Festival or The Night before the Battle, The Reprisal or The Tars of Old England, The Mid Watch, God Save the King, Rule Britannia No No Yes £320 14s 60% N/A
10 Jun 1793 Covent Garden Columbus, The Pad, The Shipwreck, The Lucky Escape, Or The Ploughboy's Return from Sea, Black Eyed Susan, Farewell To Old England, Dear Mary Adieu, Rule Britannia, Sally in Our Alley No No Yes £381 4s N/A N/A
04 Dec 1793 Covent Garden The World In A Village, Two Strings To Your Bow, The Drunken Swiss, Rule Britannia No Yes No £489 12s 6d 100% N/A
23 Apr 1794 Covent Garden The Jealous Wife, True Blue, The Upholsterer, Hornpipe, Blow high, blow low, The Mid Watch, Rule Britannia No No Yes £384 17s 6d 29% N/A
11 Jun 1794 Covent Garden Columbus, British Fortitude And Hibernian Friendship, The Waterman, Rule Britannia No No Yes £295 13s 6d 27% N/A
28 Apr 1795 Covent Garden The Woodman, The Naval Volunteers or Britain's Bulwark, Catharine and Petruchio, Hornpipe, O why to be happy, Blow high, blow low, Old Towler, Our Laws, Constitutions, and King, Rule Britannia, The Death of Admiral Benbow, The Land of Potatoes, The Little Sailor Boy, The Storm, To Gentlemen of England No No Yes £467 12s 6d 49% N/A
07 May 1795 Covent Garden The Suspicious Husband, The Naval Volunteers, Lovers' Quarrels, Hornpipe, O why to be happy, Blow high, blow low, Our Laws, Constitutions, and King, Rule Britannia, The Death of Admiral Benbow, The Storm, To Gentlemen of England No No Yes £187 6d 38% N/A
18 May 1795 Drury Lane The Duenna, The Prize, Concerto on violin, Rule Britannia No No Yes £443 17s 69% N/A
27 May 1795 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, True Blue or The Parting Lovers, Netley Abbey, Hornpipe, Wives and Sweethearts, The Young Widow, Rule Britannia, The Days We Now Possess, The Storm, The Wand'ring Sailor, When Gen'rous Wine, Ye Gentlemen of England No No Yes £287 3s 33% N/A
03 Jun 1795 Drury Lane The Country Girl, Hob in the Well, Britain's Glory or A Trip to Portsmouth, Within a Mile of Edinburgh, Dance of Sailors, Monsieur Tonson, A Variety of Imitations, Rule Britannia No No Yes £430 2s 55% N/A
12 Apr 1796 Covent Garden The Travellers In Switzerland, The Follies of a Day, Arrived at Portsmouth, The Savoyard, The Sea Storm, Here We Laugh and Work Together, O Why to be Happy, Old Towler, Rule Britannia, The Seaman Who of Wars May Tell, We've Bade the Restless Seas Adieu, When Love was a Stranger, With Pride We Steer'd for England's Coast, With Rosabel What Joy to Stray No No Yes £485 12s 51% N/A
15 Apr 1796 Covent Garden Inkle And Yarico, Three Weeks after Marriage, The Point at Herqui or British Bravery Triumphant, Negro Dance, Sweet Bird, Admiral Benbow, Irish Song, Loyal Song, Rondo, Rule Britannia, The Mid Watch, The Waiter, Tippy Bob, Ye Gentlemen of England No No Yes £384 11s 6d 42% N/A
20 Apr 1796 Covent Garden Every One Has His Fault, Arrived at Portsmouth, The Maid of the Oaks, We've Bade the Restless Seas Adieu, Here We Laugh and Work Together, O Why to be Happy, Rule Brittania, The Seaman Who of Wars May Tell, When Love was a Stranger, With Pride We Steer's for England's Coast, With Rosabel What Joy to Stray No No Yes £377 15s 6d 43% N/A
22 Apr 1796 Covent Garden The Comedy Of Errors, The Irish Mimick, Lovers' Quarrels, The Point at Herqui, Negro Dance, The Mid Watch, Irish Song, Loyal Song, Rondo, Rule Britannia, The Waiter, Tippy Bob, Ye Gentlemen of England No No Yes £454 11s 6d 41% N/A
03 May 1796 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Catharine and Petruchio, The Point at Herqui, Negro Dance, Old Towler, Admiral Benbow, Hornpipe, Irish Song, Loyal Song, Rondo, Rule Britannia, The Waiter, Tippy Bob, Ye Gentlemen of England No No Yes £288 2s 6d 48% N/A
18 May 1796 Covent Garden Inkle And Yarico, Tom Thumb, The Point at Herqui, Negro Dance, Admiral Benbow, Irish Song, Loyal Song, Mad Bess, Rondo, Rule Britannia, The Gentlemen of England, The Waiter, Tippy Bob, Where is That Tow'ring Spirit Fled No No Yes £238 4s 37% N/A
28 May 1796 Covent Garden Such Things Are, Arrived at Portsmouth, Rosina, Highland Festivity, We've Bade the Restless Seas Adieu, Here We Laugh and Work Together, O Why to be Happy, Rule Brittania, The Seaman Who of Wars May Tell, When Love was a Stranger, With Pride We Steer's for England's Coast, With Rosabel What Joy to Stray No No Yes £236 2s 6d 39% N/A
02 Jun 1796 Covent Garden The Way To Get Un married, The School for Arrogance, Dr Lasts Examination before the College of Physicians, The Shipwreck, Admiral Benbow, Imitations, All on Hobbies, Rule Britannia No No Yes £353 3s 6d N/A N/A
02 May 1797 Covent Garden Abroad And At Home, The Sailor's Prize, The Prisoner at Large, The Storm, Black-Eyed Susan, Fat Dolly, Hearts of Oak, Let Us Love and Let Us Drink, Old Towler, Rule Britannia, Teddy O'Shaughnesseys History No No Yes £440 7s 6d 57% N/A
11 May 1797 Covent Garden Abroad And At Home, The Surrender of Trinidad or Safe Moord at Last, The Irishman in London, The Storm, Beauty At Her Levee, Black-Eyed Susan, Bravura Song, Jack At the Windlass, Negro Song, Oh Why to be Happy, Rule Britannia, The Row, The Wolf No No Yes £359 14s 50% N/A
23 Oct 1797 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Doctor and the Apothecary, Representation of the English and Dutch Fleets, God Save the King, Rule Britannia No No No £220 9s 6d 46% N/A
24 Oct 1797 Drury Lane Cheap Living, No Song No Supper, Representation of the English and Dutch Fleets, God Save the King, Rule Britannia No No No £164 12s 6d 40% N/A
24 Apr 1798 Covent Garden The Heir At Law, The Sailor's Prize, Blue Devils, Sea Ballad, Travels of Trudge, Fat Dolly The Cook, Hearts of Oak, Master Teddy Shemus O'Shaughnessey O'Finnigen Delany's History of Himself, Rule Britannia, Soldier's Song No No Yes £501 18s 48% N/A
02 Oct 1798 Drury Lane The Revenge, No Song No Supper, Rule Britannia, God Save the King No No No £255 13s 100% N/A
30 Apr 1800 Covent Garden The Rage, The Critic or A Tragedy Rehears'd, Sally in Our Alley, Black Ey'd Susan, Rule Britannia No No Yes £433 2s 41% N/A
09 Nov 1805 Drury Lane The Siege of Belgrade, My Heart With Love is Beating, Rule Britannia, The Anatomist, Terpsichore's Return No No No £350 4s 6d 53% N/A

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