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 %
09 Dec 1761 Drury Lane Rule A Wife, The Old Maid, The Camp Alarmed Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 May 1762 Drury Lane Rule A Wife, The Genii, Comic Dance Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
14 Oct 1762 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Polly Honeycombe No No No Unknown N/A N/A
11 Dec 1762 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Witches No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Dec 1762 Drury Lane Rule A Wife, The Witches No No No Unknown N/A N/A
10 May 1763 Drury Lane Rule A Wife, The Witches No No No Unknown N/A N/A
26 Oct 1763 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Upholsterer, The Knife Grinders No No No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Oct 1763 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Upholsterer, The Knife Grinders No No No Unknown N/A N/A
02 Nov 1763 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Upholsterer, The Cudgelled Husband Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
08 Nov 1763 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Upholsterer, The Knife Grinders No No No Unknown N/A N/A
11 Nov 1763 Covent Garden Rule A Wife, The Upholsterer, The Cudgelled Husband No No No Unknown N/A N/A
02 Dec 1763 Covent Garden Rule A Wife, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Jan 1764 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Contrivances, The Knife Grinders No No No Unknown N/A N/A
06 Mar 1764 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Perseus and Andromeda No No No Unknown N/A N/A
24 Apr 1764 Drury Lane Rule A Wife, The Devil to Pay, The Provancalle, The Irish Lilt No No Yes £61 4s N/A N/A
04 May 1764 Covent Garden Rule A Wife, Thomas and Sally, The Judgment of Paris No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
17 May 1764 Drury Lane Rule A Wife, The Fairy Tale, Hornpipe, The Provancalle No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
24 Sep 1764 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Upholsterer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
04 Dec 1764 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
27 Dec 1764 Covent Garden Rule A Wife, The Englishman in Paris, The Sicilian Peasants, Rural Love, The Tyrolese Peasants No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
11 May 1765 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Witches, Double Hornpipe No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
16 Oct 1765 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Perseus and Andromeda No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Oct 1765 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Perseus and Andromeda No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Oct 1765 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Perseus and Andromeda No No No Unknown N/A N/A
24 Oct 1765 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Perseus and Andromeda Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
03 Dec 1765 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Harlequin's Invasion No No No Unknown N/A N/A
08 Apr 1766 Drury Lane Rule A Wife, Fortunatus, New Tambourine No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
27 Nov 1766 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Harlequin Dr Faustus Yes No No £185 19s 44% N/A
07 Mar 1767 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Devil to Pay No No No £261 15s 6d 51% N/A
16 Mar 1767 Drury Lane Rule A Wife, The Musical Lady, The Lilliputian Camp No Yes No £242 3s N/A N/A
23 May 1767 Drury Lane Rule A Wife, Miss in Her Teens, Concerto on harpsichord No No No £202 10s 63% N/A
24 Oct 1769 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Midas No No No £107 5s 6d N/A N/A
02 Nov 1769 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Thomas and Sally, The Merry Sailors, Rural Love No Yes No £178 12s 6d N/A N/A
20 Dec 1769 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Musical Lady, The Whim No No Yes £227 16s 6d N/A N/A
01 Mar 1770 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Jubilee No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
18 May 1770 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, A Peep behind the Curtain, Hunting Song, The May Day Garland No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
04 Jan 1771 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Miss in Her Teens No No No Unknown N/A N/A
08 Jan 1771 Drury Lane Rule A Wife, The Padlock No No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Jan 1771 Drury Lane Rule A Wife, The Devil to Pay, New Comic Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Jun 1771 Drury Lane Rule A Wife, Miss in Her Teens, The Sailors' Revels No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
13 Nov 1771 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Padlock No No No £252 4s 6d 52% N/A
16 Dec 1771 Drury Lane Rule A Wife, Amelia, The Sailors' Revels Yes No No £252 2s 6d 63% N/A
01 Feb 1772 Drury Lane Rule A Wife, The Padlock No No No £232 1s 6d 61% N/A
23 Oct 1772 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Mother Shipton No No No £134 7s 6d 40% N/A
27 Oct 1772 Covent Garden Rule A Wife, Comus, New Occasional Prelude Yes No No £163 2s 50% N/A
28 Oct 1772 Covent Garden Rule A Wife, Comus, The Irish Lilt No Yes No £223 4s 56% N/A
31 Oct 1772 Covent Garden Rule A Wife, Comus, New Occasional Prelude No No No £148 10s 47% N/A
03 Nov 1772 Covent Garden Rule A Wife, Comus No No No £152 8s 40% N/A
05 Nov 1772 Covent Garden Rule A Wife, Daphne and Amintor, New Ballet No No No £104 4s 6d 40% N/A
19 Nov 1772 Covent Garden Rule A Wife, Comus, New Occasional Prelude Yes No No £165 6s 6d 42% N/A
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