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 %
05 Nov 1788 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Doctor and the Apothecary No No Yes £133 15s N/A N/A
04 Dec 1788 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Arthur and Emmeline No No No £107 8s 6d 37% N/A
23 Jan 1789 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Love in a Camp No No No £173 18s 51% N/A
19 Mar 1789 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Death of Captain Cook, Three Weeks after Marriage No No No £261 10s 60% N/A
12 Nov 1789 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Three Weeks after Marriage, Tambourine Dance No No No £227 17s 6d 69% N/A
26 Nov 1789 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Three Weeks after Marriage, The Deserter No No No £146 2s N/A N/A
04 Feb 1790 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Maid of the Oaks, The Deserter No No No £257 5s 55% N/A
16 Apr 1790 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Padlock, The Wapping Landlady or The Sailor in Distress No No Yes £242 19s 44% N/A
21 Oct 1791 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Oscar and Malvina No No No £224 18s 100% N/A
05 Oct 1792 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Highland Reel No No No £281 5s 6d 100% N/A
17 Apr 1793 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, True Blue, The Sultan, Hornpipe, Collins's Ode on the Passions No No Yes £258 16s 6d 56% N/A
17 Sep 1793 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Tom Thumb, The Wapping Landlady No No No £160 17s 100% N/A
01 Feb 1797 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Deserter, The Scotch Ghost No No No £227 10s 6d 34% N/A
04 Feb 1797 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, No Song No Supper No No No £181 16s 36% N/A
13 Mar 1797 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Lodoiska, The Labyrinth No No No £194 16s 48% N/A
03 Apr 1797 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Smugglers, The Scotch Ghost No No No £268 7s 59% N/A
11 Oct 1797 Covent Garden The Rival Soldiers, Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, Three Weeks after Marriage No No No £365 4s 6d 100% N/A
12 Oct 1797 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Chimney Corner No No No £277 17s 68% N/A
18 Oct 1797 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Three Weeks after Marriage, Englands Glory or The Defeat of the Dutch Fleet by the Gallant Admiral Duncan on the Memorable Eleventh of October, Triple Hornpipe No No No £375 7s 6d 100% N/A
24 Oct 1797 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Three Weeks after Marriage, Englands Glory, Les Delilitaires, Peggy's Love No No No £250 15s 60% N/A
16 Nov 1797 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Devil to Pay, A Trip to the Nore No No No £239 6d 69% N/A
07 Feb 1798 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Blue Beard No No No £310 5s 74% N/A
12 Apr 1798 Covent Garden The Raft, Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, Harlequin's Return No No No £185 11s 32% N/A
02 May 1798 Covent Garden The Raft, Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, Raymond and Agnes, Dance of Savoyards No No No £99 17s 6d 26% N/A
04 Feb 1799 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Feudal Times No No No £238 2s 33% N/A
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