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
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