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 %
20 Apr 1756 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Devil to Pay, New Sailors' Dance Yes No Yes £270 N/A N/A
20 May 1756 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Devil to Pay, Hornpipe, Minuet No No Yes £140 N/A N/A
27 May 1756 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Englishman in Paris Yes No No £190 100% N/A
30 Sep 1756 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Anatomist No No No £210 100% N/A
03 Nov 1756 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Mock Doctor No No No £170 N/A N/A
13 Dec 1756 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Mock Doctor No No No £190 N/A N/A
16 Feb 1757 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Frenchified Lady, New Comic Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Mar 1757 Covent Garden Hamlet, A Duke and no Duke No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
03 May 1757 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Lying Valet No No Yes £140 N/A N/A
04 May 1757 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Knights, Hornpipe, The Lamplighters No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
24 Sep 1757 Drury Lane Hamlet No No No £200 100% N/A
08 Oct 1757 Covent Garden Hamlet, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No £70 7s 47% N/A
29 Oct 1757 Covent Garden Hamlet, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No £71 31% N/A
29 Nov 1757 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Market No No No £160 45% N/A
20 Jan 1758 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Mock Doctor, The Italian Peasants, The Judgment of Paris No No No £110 6s 6d 41% N/A
28 Feb 1758 Covent Garden Hamlet, Lethe, Sicilian Peasants No No No £140 17s 41% N/A
30 Mar 1758 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Upholsterer Yes No Yes £280 N/A N/A
08 Apr 1758 Drury Lane Hamlet, Queen Mab No No No £100 75% N/A
24 Apr 1758 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Chaplet, The Provincial Sailors, Comic Ballet No No Yes £183 5s 6d N/A N/A
18 May 1758 Covent Garden Hamlet, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No £31 6s 6d N/A N/A
29 May 1758 Drury Lane Hamlet, Queen Mab Yes No No £120 100% N/A
26 Sep 1758 Drury Lane Hamlet Prince Of Denmark, The Mock Doctor No No No £202 3s 6d 100% N/A
30 Oct 1758 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Lottery, The Threshers No No No £64 9s 29% N/A
02 Jan 1759 Covent Garden Hamlet, The School Boy, The Feast of Bacchus No No No £77 5s 29% N/A
27 Feb 1759 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Englishman Returnd from Paris, The Threshers No No No £97 10s 6d 34% N/A
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