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
17 Oct 1760 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Harlequin Skeleton, The Pedlar Tricked No No No £55 15s N/A N/A
12 Feb 1761 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Rape of Proserpine No No No £182 8s N/A N/A
23 Sep 1761 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Rape of Proserpine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Oct 1761 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Fair No No No £137 15s 6d N/A N/A
07 Jan 1762 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Knights, The Taylors, The French Country Gentleman No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
03 Apr 1762 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Merry Counterfeit, The Pleasures of Spring No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
08 May 1762 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Devil to Pay, The Cossacks No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
17 May 1762 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Reprisal, Hearts of Oak, Hippisley's Drunken Man No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
20 Oct 1762 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Devil to Pay, The Pedlar Tricked, The Swedish Gardeners No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Nov 1762 Covent Garden The Merry Wives, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
10 Nov 1763 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Englishman in Paris, The Knife Grinders, The Cudgelled Husband No No No Unknown N/A N/A
04 Jan 1764 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Rites of Hecate No No No £201 7s N/A N/A
21 Jan 1764 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Perseus and Andromeda and the Arcadian Nuptials No No No Unknown N/A N/A
08 Mar 1764 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Perseus and Andromeda No No No Unknown N/A N/A
17 Oct 1764 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Englishman in Paris, Tambourine, The Sicilian Peasants No No No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Nov 1764 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
23 Jan 1765 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
30 Oct 1765 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Royal Chace No No No Unknown N/A N/A
24 Jan 1766 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Hermit No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
08 Nov 1766 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Royal Chace No No No £82 19s 6d 43% N/A
09 Jan 1768 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Elopement No No No Unknown N/A N/A
04 Oct 1768 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Apprentice, The Tartars No No No £116 9s 6d N/A N/A
08 Oct 1768 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Royal Chace No No No £127 4s 6d N/A N/A
13 Oct 1768 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Thomas and Sally, The Irish Lilt, The Merry Sailors No Yes No £209 1s 6d N/A N/A
14 Dec 1768 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Harlequin Dr Faustus No No No £75 18s 6d N/A N/A
16 Dec 1769 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Jubilee No No No Unknown N/A N/A
29 Dec 1769 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Jubilee Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
27 May 1771 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, A Trip to Scotland, The Allemande No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
15 Jan 1772 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Witches No No No £158 6s 59% N/A
24 Feb 1778 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Comus, The Provincalle No No No £231 15s 6d 58% N/A
25 Feb 1778 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Selima and Azor, Rural Grace No Yes No £273 10s 66% N/A
28 Feb 1778 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Selima and Azor, The Provincalle No No No £210 18s 55% N/A
09 Mar 1778 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Comus, Rural Grace No No No £209 13s 43% N/A
02 Apr 1778 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Belphegor No No Yes £222 19s 52% N/A
17 Sep 1778 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Comus, Sweet Echo No No No £226 8s 6d 100% N/A
06 Nov 1778 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Camp No No No £137 16s 6d N/A N/A
26 Jan 1779 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Wonders of Derbyshire No No No £208 11s N/A N/A
03 May 1779 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Camp, Tally Ho! No No Yes £133 9s 6d N/A N/A
13 Nov 1779 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Catherine And Petruchio, The Embarkment for Cytherea No No No £111 9s 50% N/A
07 Dec 1779 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Mirror No No No £160 7s 62% N/A
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