Othello (1622)

Author
William Shakespeare
Work Type
Mainpiece
Genre
Tragedy
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
£32,894 17s 10d £17,895 11s 4d (54.4%) £14,999 6s 6d (45.6%)
1732 - 1809
£32,894 17s 10d - (100%) £17,895 11s 4d (54.4%) £14,999 6s 6d (45.6%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
314 178 136
1732 - 1809
314 178 136
Notes
Performed first 1601-4.
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
11 Jan 1757 Covent Garden Othello, The Virgin Unmasked No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
07 Mar 1757 Covent Garden Othello, The Cheats of Scapin No No No Unknown N/A N/A
07 May 1757 Covent Garden Othello, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
16 Nov 1757 Covent Garden Othello Moor Of Venice, Lethe, Jovial Coopers No No No £51 18s 6d 29% N/A
12 Dec 1757 Covent Garden Othello, The Lover His Own Rival, Fingalian Dance No No No £98 3s 6d N/A N/A
21 Feb 1758 Covent Garden Othello, The School Boy, Sicilian Peasants No No No £139 7s 6d 41% N/A
04 Apr 1758 Covent Garden Othello, Lethe, Sicilian Peasants, Fingalian Dance No No Yes £137 2s 6d 32% N/A
23 Oct 1758 Covent Garden Othello, The Double Disappointment, The Threshers No No No £68 17s 6d 31% N/A
17 Jan 1759 Covent Garden Othello, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No £124 12s 6d 49% N/A
14 May 1759 Drury Lane Othello, The Diversions of the Morning, New Grand Dance No No Yes £130 N/A N/A
17 May 1759 Covent Garden Othello, Miss in Her Teens, The Threshers, Hornpipe No No Yes £264 5s N/A N/A
19 Dec 1759 Covent Garden Othello, The Fair No No No £114 2s 39% N/A
22 Apr 1760 Covent Garden Othello, The Miller of Mansfield, Fingalian Dance, Comic Dance, Minuet, The Milk Maids Holiday Yes No Yes £104 1s 6d N/A N/A
18 Oct 1760 Covent Garden Othello, Harlequin Skeleton, The Pedlar Tricked No No No £94 15s N/A N/A
17 Jan 1761 Covent Garden Othello, Thomas and Sally No No No £114 4s 6d N/A N/A
28 Mar 1761 Drury Lane Othello, Harlequin's Invasion No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
30 Apr 1761 Drury Lane Othello, Lethe Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
23 Jun 1761 Covent Garden Othello, The Upholsterer, Hornpipe Yes No Yes £79 15s 6d 100% N/A
13 Oct 1761 Covent Garden Othello, The Fair No No No £131 6d N/A N/A
17 Oct 1761 Drury Lane Othello, The Coronation, Comic Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
19 Oct 1761 Drury Lane Othello, The Harlequin's Invasion No No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Oct 1762 Covent Garden Othello, Thomas and Sally Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
31 Mar 1764 Drury Lane Othello, Thomas and Sally, The Irish Lilt No No Yes £268 11s N/A N/A
14 Apr 1764 Drury Lane Othello, The Lying Valet, The Faggot Binders Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
28 Apr 1764 Drury Lane Othello, Thomas and Sally No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
24 May 1764 Drury Lane Othello, The Witches, Double Hornpipe, The Carpenters and the Fruit Dealers No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
14 Jan 1765 Covent Garden Othello, Catherine and Petruchio, Rural Love No No No Unknown N/A N/A
19 Mar 1765 Drury Lane Othello, The Guardian, New Tambourine No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
10 Apr 1765 Drury Lane Othello, The Devil to Pay, The Medley, The Irish Lilt No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
10 May 1765 Drury Lane Othello, The Rites of Hecate, The Irish Milkmaids, Tambourine No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
13 May 1765 Covent Garden Othello, The Shepherds Artifice, Medley Hornpipe, Rural Love No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
28 Oct 1765 Covent Garden Othello, The Royal Chace or Harlequin Skeleton No No No Unknown N/A N/A
13 Feb 1766 Drury Lane Othello, Daphne and Amintor No No No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Apr 1766 Drury Lane Othello, Harlequin's Invasion No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
06 Dec 1766 Drury Lane Othello, Neck or Nothing No No No £116 15s 6d 40% N/A
09 May 1767 Drury Lane Othello, Daphne and Amintor, The Irish Lilt, Search After Scrubs No No Yes £68 5s 6d N/A N/A
29 Oct 1767 Drury Lane Othello, A Peep behind the Curtain No No No Unknown N/A N/A
31 Oct 1767 Drury Lane Othello, A Peep behind the Curtain No No No Unknown N/A N/A
05 Dec 1767 Covent Garden Othello Moor Of Venice, Midas, The Dutch Milkmaid No No No £205 1s N/A N/A
05 May 1768 Drury Lane Othello, Daphne and Amintor, The Medley Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
31 Oct 1768 Drury Lane Othello, The Lottery No No No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Jan 1769 Drury Lane Othello, Queen Mab No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Nov 1769 Drury Lane Othello, The Jubilee No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Dec 1769 Drury Lane Othello, The Register Office, The English Gardeners No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
17 Mar 1770 Drury Lane Othello, The Jubilee No No No Unknown N/A N/A
24 Apr 1770 Drury Lane Othello, The Jubilee No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
10 Nov 1770 Drury Lane Othello, The Elopement No No No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Jan 1771 Covent Garden Othello, Mother Shipton No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Dec 1771 Covent Garden Othello, The Author, The Reel No No Yes £185 16s 49% N/A
07 Jan 1772 Drury Lane Othello, The Witches No No No £220 57% N/A
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