Arthur and Emmeline (1784)

Composer
Henry Purcell
Author
John Philip Kemble
Composer
Thomas Linley Sr.
Author
David Garrick
Work Type
Afterpiece
Genre
Drama/entertainment
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
£6,704 6d £1,307 9s (19.5%) £5,396 11s 6d (80.5%)
1732 - 1809
£6,704 6d - (100%) £1,307 9s (19.5%) £5,396 11s 6d (80.5%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
39 5 34
1732 - 1809
39 5 34
Notes
Altered from David Garrick's alteration of Dryden's King Arthur (1691).
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
20 Oct 1788 Drury Lane The Provok'd Husband, Arthur and Emmeline No No No £155 14s 44% N/A
04 Dec 1788 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Arthur and Emmeline No No No £107 8s 6d 37% N/A
27 Jan 1789 Drury Lane All In The Wrong, Arthur and Emmeline No No No £218 1s 6d 47% N/A
17 Feb 1789 Drury Lane All In The Wrong, Arthur and Emmeline No No No £170 1s 39% N/A
28 Oct 1789 Drury Lane The False Friend, Arthur and Emmeline No No No £139 15s 6d 45% N/A
05 Nov 1789 Drury Lane The Inconstant Or The Way To Win Him, Arthur and Emmeline No No No £110 18s 39% N/A
30 Apr 1790 Drury Lane Tit For Tat, Arthur and Emmeline, The Follies of a Day No No Yes £237 7s 46% N/A
18 May 1790 Drury Lane All In The Wrong, Taste or Frolicks of Fancy, Arthur and Emmeline No No Yes £247 15s 6d 38% N/A
28 Apr 1791 Drury Lane Mordecai's Beard, The Confederacy, Arthur and Emmeline No No Yes £326 17s 39% N/A
02 Nov 1803 Covent Garden Arthur and Emmeline, Much Ado About Nothing No No No £146 6d 40% N/A
04 Nov 1803 Covent Garden John Bull; or, An Englishman's Fire-side, Arthur and Emmeline No No No £248 6s 6d 54% N/A
25 Nov 1803 Covent Garden King Henry the Fifth; or, The Conquest of France, Arthur and Emmeline No No Yes £330 15s 66% N/A
01 Dec 1803 Covent Garden John Bull; or, An Englishman's Fire-side, Arthur and Emmeline No No No £306 6s 72% N/A
18 Jan 1804 Covent Garden The Stranger, Arthur and Emmeline No No No £276 1s 38% N/A
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