The Knights (1754)

Author
Samuel Foote
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
£5,546 3s 6d £4,656 3s 6d (84%) £890 (16%)
1732 - 1809
£5,546 3s 6d - (100%) £4,656 3s 6d (84%) £890 (16%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
53 47 6
1732 - 1809
53 47 6
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
05 Apr 1758 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, The Knights, The Judgment of Paris No No Yes £138 12s N/A N/A
14 Apr 1758 Covent Garden Julius Caesar With The Deaths Of Brutus And Cassius, The Knights, Judgment of Paris No No Yes £127 2s N/A N/A
20 Apr 1758 Covent Garden Coriolanus, The Knights, Prussian Sailors, Comic Dance, Grotesque Minuet, Roast Beef f Old England or The Antigallican No No Yes £152 6s N/A N/A
05 May 1758 Covent Garden The Country Lasses, The Knights, Tambourine, Dutch Dance, The Roast Beef of Old England No No Yes £196 15s 6d N/A N/A
22 Sep 1758 Covent Garden The Committee Or The Faithful Irishman, The Knights No No No £71 1s 100% N/A
02 Oct 1758 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Knights No No No £83 17s 100% N/A
08 Nov 1758 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, The Knights No No No £72 6s 6d 28% N/A
12 Dec 1758 Covent Garden Cleone, The Knights, The Feast of Bacchus No No No £113 7s 38% N/A
14 May 1759 Covent Garden Jane Shore, The Knights, The Threshers No No Yes £141 N/A N/A
15 Oct 1759 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Knights, Country Dance, Hornpipe, The Irish Turf-Cutters Yes No No £196 13s 6d 100% N/A
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