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 %
23 Sep 1745 Covent Garden Hamlet Prince Of Denmark No No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Oct 1745 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Mock Doctor, Ball Country Dance No No No £84 2s 100% N/A
29 Nov 1745 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Intriguing Chambermaid No No No £37 6s 6d N/A N/A
07 May 1746 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Double Disappointment No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
13 Jun 1746 Covent Garden Hamlet, Peasant, The Gondaliers No No No Unknown N/A N/A
29 Sep 1746 Covent Garden Hamlet Prince Of Denmark, The Lying Valet No No No £115 8s 100% N/A
22 Oct 1746 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Virgin Unmasked No No No £186 18s 100% N/A
10 Nov 1746 Covent Garden Hamlet, The King and the Miller of Mansfield No Yes No £178 1s 6d 60% N/A
24 Mar 1747 Drury Lane Hamlet Prince Of Denmark, The Suspicious Husband Criticized or The Plague of Envy Yes No Yes £180 N/A N/A
11 Apr 1747 Drury Lane Hamlet, Chrononhotonthologos Yes No No £98 42% N/A
29 Apr 1747 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Contrivances No No Yes £100 N/A N/A
22 Sep 1747 Drury Lane Hamlet Prince Of Denmark, The Double Disappointment No No No £146 3s 6d 100% N/A
23 Oct 1747 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Virgin Unmasked No No No £176 5s 100% N/A
24 Nov 1747 Drury Lane Hamlet, Miss in Her Teens No No No £138 19s N/A N/A
09 Dec 1747 Covent Garden Hamlet Prince Of Denmark, The Mock Doctor No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Jan 1748 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Intriguing Chambermaid No No No £187 13s 6d N/A N/A
23 Feb 1748 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Royal Chace, Ah se amanti fasti mai felice Belve, Go Rose, My Chloe's Bosom Grace, Tis' Liberty, Dear Liberty No No No Unknown N/A N/A
03 Mar 1748 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Double Disappointment, Tambourine, Dutch Dance No No No £108 10s 6d N/A N/A
02 Apr 1748 Covent Garden Hamlet, Apollo and Daphne No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Apr 1748 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Double Disappointment, Comic Dance No No Yes £150 N/A N/A
27 Apr 1748 Covent Garden Hamlet, Drums Demolishd or Bickerstaffs Unburied Dead, Go Rose, Ah se amanti fasti mai felice belve, Come Ever Smiling Liberty Tis Liberty No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
24 Sep 1748 Drury Lane Hamlet Prince Of Denmark, The Anatomist No No No £150 1s 100% N/A
14 Oct 1748 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Intriguing Chambermaid Yes No No £141 9s N/A N/A
17 Dec 1748 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Virgin Unmasked No No No £174 8s 6d N/A N/A
05 Jan 1749 Drury Lane Hamlet No Yes No £181 16s N/A N/A
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