The Merry Wives of Windsor (1602)

Author
William Shakespeare
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
£25,934 5s 6d £17,492 3s 6d (67.4%) £8,442 2s (32.6%)
1732 - 1809
£25,934 5s 6d - (100%) £17,492 3s 6d (67.4%) £8,442 2s (32.6%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
232 169 63
1732 - 1809
232 169 63
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
22 Apr 1758 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Contrivances, Hornpipe, Judgment of Paris, New Comic Dance No No Yes £239 12s 6d N/A N/A
25 Sep 1758 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Miller of Mansfield No No No £69 16s 100% N/A
31 Oct 1758 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Harlequin Skeleton No No No £28 2s 16% N/A
16 Jan 1759 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Englishman Returnd from Paris, Fingalian Dance, The Threshers No No Yes £245 12s 6d 31% N/A
26 Apr 1759 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Rape of Proserpine No No No £140 5s N/A N/A
26 Sep 1759 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The King and the Miller of Mansfield No No No £65 3s 6d 100% N/A
10 Dec 1759 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Fair No No No £203 7s 56% N/A
29 Dec 1759 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Fair No No No £127 56% N/A
11 Jan 1760 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Fair No No No £119 11s 46% N/A
22 Apr 1760 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Queen Mab, Hornpipe No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
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