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 %
27 Nov 1783 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Comus No No No £91 13s 6d 26% N/A
15 Jan 1784 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Harlequin Junior No No No £218 19s 6d 53% N/A
06 Mar 1784 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Sultan, Grand Dance No No No £276 17s 6d 50% N/A
11 Mar 1784 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Sultan, Damon and Musidora, Grand Dance No Yes No £327 14s 64% N/A
15 Mar 1784 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Rival Knights, The Sultan, Grand Dance No No No £273 14s 73% N/A
22 Apr 1784 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Rival Knights, The Sultan, Grand Dance No No No £191 10s 6d 49% N/A
27 Oct 1784 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Sultan, Leap Year, or A New Way of Wooing No No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Nov 1784 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Arthur and Emmeline No No No £120 3s 6d N/A N/A
12 Feb 1785 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Sultan No No No Unknown N/A N/A
17 Feb 1785 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Barnaby Brittle, Pastoral Sports No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Apr 1785 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Three Weeks after Marriage, Leap Year No No No Unknown N/A N/A
05 May 1785 Drury Lane The Convivial Coterie, Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, The Caldron, The Slave in Chains No No Yes £224 18s 6d N/A N/A
11 May 1785 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Lawyer's Panic, Three Weeks after Marriage No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
27 Oct 1785 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Appearance is against Them No No No £169 18s 50% N/A
13 Dec 1785 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Three Weeks after Marriage, The Piping Pedlar No No No £180 5s 6d 43% N/A
02 Feb 1786 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Sultan, The Recruiting Sergeant, The Piping Pedlar No No No £254 18s 47% N/A
28 Oct 1786 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £176 17s 47% N/A
10 Jan 1787 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £195 9s 47% N/A
31 Jan 1787 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Three Weeks after Marriage, The Wapping Landlady No No No £254 4s 6d 55% N/A
02 Feb 1787 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife No No No £133 12s 34% N/A
19 Feb 1787 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Sultan No No No £235 10s 6d 42% N/A
20 Nov 1787 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Farmer, Mirth by Moonshine No No No £166 7s 6d 55% N/A
12 Feb 1788 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Three Weeks after Marriage No No No £141 16s 44% N/A
06 May 1788 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Le Matin Midi et le Soir, Too Civil by Half, The Conjugal Frolick No No Yes £250 6s 24% N/A
29 Oct 1788 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Poor Soldier No No No £185 19s 6d 100% N/A
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