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
£22,047 18s £14,854 6s (67.4%) £7,193 12s (32.6%)
1732 - 1809
£22,047 18s - (100%) £14,854 6s (67.4%) £7,193 12s (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 %
18 Jan 1733 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Flora, Tambourine, Fingalian, Saraband No No No £61 12s 100% N/A
23 Jan 1733 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Cheats or The Tavern Bilkers, Tambourine, New Comic Dance, Scottish Dance No Yes No £119 6d N/A N/A
16 Apr 1733 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The School Boy, Fingalian, Comic Dance Yes No No £50 7s N/A N/A
19 May 1733 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Rape of Helen, Tambourine, Fingalian, Mock Minuet No No Yes £103 8s 6d 100% N/A
29 Sep 1733 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Devil to Pay, Tambourine, Scottish Dance, Two Pierrots No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Nov 1733 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Flora, Scottish Dance, The Nassau No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Dec 1733 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Country House, Single Dance, French Sailor and his Lass, Scotch Dance Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Jan 1734 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Perseus and Andromeda or The Cheats of Harlequin No No No Unknown N/A N/A
06 Dec 1734 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Colombine Courtezan No No No Unknown N/A N/A
07 Dec 1734 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Intriguing Chambermaid No No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Dec 1734 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Devil to Pay, Drunken Peasant, Pierrots, Revellers No No No Unknown N/A N/A
10 Dec 1734 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Devil to Pay, Drunken Peasant, Pierrots, Revellers No No No Unknown N/A N/A
11 Dec 1734 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Lottery, Dutchman and his Frow, Les Bergeries, Pierrots No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Dec 1734 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Merlin No No No Unknown N/A N/A
13 Feb 1735 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Devil to Pay, Drunken Peasant, Pierots, Revellers No No No Unknown N/A N/A
13 May 1735 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Cuckow, New Peasant Dance, Come Let Us Prepare, Amorous Swain, English Maggot, Let Masonry be Now My Theme, On on My Dear Brethren No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
21 Nov 1735 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Harlots Progress, Grand Ballet No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Mar 1736 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Sylvia; or, The Country Burial, Two Pierrots, French Peasants, Scot's Dance No No Yes £140 12s N/A N/A
21 May 1736 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Contrivances, Damon and Phillida, Amorous Clowns, English Maggot, Grand Ballet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
06 Jan 1737 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Fall of Phaeton No No No Unknown N/A N/A
03 Feb 1737 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The King and the Miller of Mansfield, Tambourine Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
24 Mar 1737 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Cheats of Scapin, Clown, Grand Comic Dance, Minuet, Scots Dance, The Kilkenny, The Louvre No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
29 Apr 1737 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Intriguing Chambermaid, Comic Dance, The Lady's Lamentation, Grecian Sailors No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
03 May 1738 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Intriguing Chambermaid, Drunken Peasant, The Early Horn, Polonese, Turkish Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
18 May 1738 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Devil to Pay, Flanderkins, Grand Ballet, La Pieraite, Russian Sailor No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
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