Hamlet (1603)

Author
William Shakespeare
Author
Sir William Davenant (1661)
Author
David Garrick (1772)
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
£79,311 10s £29,599 12s (37.3%) £49,711 18s (62.7%)
1732 - 1809
£79,311 10s - (100%) £29,599 12s (37.3%) £49,711 18s (62.7%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
523 214 309
1732 - 1809
523 214 309
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
28 Dec 1785 Drury Lane Hamlet, Hurly Burly No No No £172 7s 40% N/A
15 May 1786 Drury Lane Hamlet, Comus No No Yes £326 14s 6d N/A N/A
19 Sep 1786 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Humourist or Whos Who No No No £191 4s 100% N/A
11 Jan 1787 Drury Lane Hamlet, Harlequin's Invasion No No No £203 3s 6d 50% N/A
18 Sep 1787 Drury Lane Hamlet, The First Floor No No No £186 5s 6d 100% N/A
29 Oct 1787 Drury Lane Hamlet, Harlequin's Invasion No No No £118 19s 6d 49% N/A
03 Dec 1787 Drury Lane Hamlet, Harlequin's Invasion No No No £105 19s 6d 39% N/A
31 Dec 1787 Drury Lane Hamlet, Harlequin Junior No No No £138 12s 40% N/A
04 Jun 1788 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Lyar No No No £55 14s 6d 62% N/A
30 Sep 1788 Drury Lane Hamlet, The First Floor No No No £182 8s 100% N/A
16 Nov 1789 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Poor Soldier No No No £226 9s 6d 53% N/A
02 Jun 1790 Covent Garden Hamlet, Marian, Mad Bess, Sweet Bird No No Yes £351 9s 6d N/A N/A
07 Jun 1790 Covent Garden Hamlet, Nootka Sound, Mad Bess No No No £139 11s 6d 100% N/A
06 Dec 1790 Covent Garden Hamlet, Harlequin's Chaplet No No No £222 5s 6d 51% N/A
13 Dec 1790 Covent Garden Hamlet, A Divertisement No No No £151 12s 6d 44% N/A
17 Oct 1791 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Crusade No No No £217 6s 6d 48% N/A
05 Nov 1792 Covent Garden Hamlet, Hartford Bridge No No No £313 15s 6d 63% N/A
27 Dec 1792 Covent Garden Hamlet, Harlequin's Museum, Burlesque Pas des Russe, Hornpipe No No No £298 2s 58% N/A
09 Oct 1793 Covent Garden Hamlet, Three Weeks after Marriage, Dirge No No No £332 4s 100% N/A
16 Oct 1793 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Prisoner at Large, Dirge No No No £324 13s 100% N/A
21 Oct 1793 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Invasion or All Alarm'd at Brighthelmstone No No No £304 10s 100% N/A
30 Oct 1793 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Little Hunchback, Dirge No No No £263 4s 6d 100% N/A
04 Nov 1793 Covent Garden Hamlet, Harlequin's Chaplet, Dirge, When in War on the Ocean No No No £231 16s 6d 100% N/A
15 Nov 1793 Covent Garden Hamlet, Rose And Colin, Dirge, When in War on the Ocean No No No £224 2s 100% N/A
16 Dec 1793 Covent Garden Hamlet, Rose And Colin, Dermot and Kathlane, Dirge No No No £245 8s 100% N/A
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