Rule a Wife and Have a Wife (1624)

Author
John Fletcher
Work Type
Mainpiece
Genre
Comedy
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
£28,119 2s 6d £11,720 10s 6d (41.7%) £16,398 12s (58.3%)
1732 - 1809
£28,119 2s 6d - (100%) £11,720 10s 6d (41.7%) £16,398 12s (58.3%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
249 130 119
1732 - 1809
249 130 119
Notes
Published in 1640.
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
14 May 1799 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Blue Beard No No No £224 7s 61% N/A
28 Sep 1799 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Prize No No No £245 2s 100% N/A
14 Oct 1799 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Blue Beard or Female Curiosity No No No £370 2s 62% N/A
13 Nov 1799 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, My Grandmother No No No £176 3s 43% N/A
03 Jan 1800 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Lodoiska No No No £172 18s 49% N/A
06 Feb 1800 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Lodoiska No Yes No £591 19s 79% N/A
25 Oct 1800 Drury Lane Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, Wilmore Castle, Actaeon and Diana No No No £360 13s 6d 100% N/A
19 Mar 1801 Drury Lane Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, Of Age To-morrow No No No £362 3s 52% N/A
11 Jun 1801 Drury Lane Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, The Doctor & the Apothecary No No Yes £74 6s 6d N/A N/A
19 Jun 1801 Covent Garden Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, The Scotch Ghost, The Poor Soldier No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
05 Jan 1802 Drury Lane Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, The Festival of Bacchus, ballet, My Grandmother No No No £118 12s 6d 21% N/A
07 May 1802 Drury Lane Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, Adelmorn the Outlaw No No No £267 19s 6d 56% N/A
10 Nov 1802 Drury Lane Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, The Prize No No No £234 6s 43% N/A
15 Jun 1803 Drury Lane Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, The Shipwreck No No Yes £74 15s N/A N/A
06 Dec 1803 Covent Garden Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, Love Laughs at Locksmiths No No No £161 7s 45% N/A
02 May 1804 Drury Lane Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, Cinderella No No Yes £265 1s 6d 37% N/A
26 Sep 1804 Covent Garden Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, The Irish Mimick; or, Blunders at Brighton No No No £248 6d 100% N/A
21 Dec 1804 Drury Lane Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, The Doctor and the Apothecary No No No £133 17s 6d 40% N/A
23 Oct 1805 Covent Garden Rule a Wife and have a Wife, Rugantino; or, The Bravo of Venice No No No £283 18s 6d 68% N/A
28 Jan 1807 Covent Garden Rule a Wife & Have a Wife, Mother Goose No No No £382 12s 6d 57% N/A
02 Jan 1808 Covent Garden Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, Harlequin in his Element No No No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Oct 1808 Drury Lane Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, The Weathercock No No No £277 16s 6d 100% N/A
08 Oct 1808 Drury Lane Rule a Wife and Have a WIfe, Ella Rosenberg No No No £264 15s 100% N/A
29 May 1809 Covent Garden Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, The Ghost, Valentine and Orson No No Yes £300 3s 62% N/A
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