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 %
31 Dec 1735 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Devil to Pay, Revellers, Tambourine, Venetian Gondolier and Courtezan No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
24 Jan 1736 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Royal Chace / Europa No No No £181 10s N/A N/A
02 Mar 1736 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Fall of Phaeton No No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Apr 1736 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Two Pierrots, Chancon a Boire, Sailors from Orestes, Tambourine, The Confession, The Opinion of the Ancients No No Yes £152 13s 6d N/A N/A
28 Apr 1736 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Fall of Phaeton No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Sep 1736 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Damon and Phillida, Clown No No No Unknown N/A N/A
08 Nov 1736 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Intriguing Chambermaid, English Maggot, Drunken Peasant, Flight No No No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Mar 1737 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Country House, Two Pierrots, As I Saw Fair Clara, Comic Dance, Scots Dance Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
03 Sep 1737 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Devil to Pay No No No £49 100% N/A
13 Jan 1738 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Dragon of Wantley No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Feb 1738 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Royal Chace No No No Unknown N/A N/A
23 Mar 1738 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Two Pierrots, Dance of Sailors, Grand Dance, Scots Dance, The Marriee No Yes Yes Unknown N/A N/A
06 May 1738 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Flora, Comic Dance, French Sailors, Serious Dance Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
18 Sep 1738 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Dragon of Wantley No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Oct 1738 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Harlots Progress, Black Joak, Drunken Peasant No No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Nov 1738 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Rape of Proserpine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
11 Dec 1738 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Harlots Progress, Grand Ballet No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
05 Feb 1739 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Perseus and Andromeda No No No Unknown N/A N/A
14 Apr 1739 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Perseus and Andromeda, Tambourine, Scots Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
23 May 1739 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Virgin Unmasked, Punches, The Protestation, Ethiopian Dance, French Peasants, Pierots Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
10 Sep 1739 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Dragon of Wantley, Ballet No No No Unknown N/A N/A
16 Oct 1739 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Robin Goodfellow, Scots Dance, Ethiopian, Pierots No No No Unknown N/A N/A
07 Dec 1739 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Perseus and Andromeda, Grand Dance in Momus No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Jan 1740 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Fortune Tellers, Voyage to the Land of Cytherea No No No Unknown N/A N/A
14 Feb 1740 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Orpheus and Eurydice No No No Unknown N/A N/A
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