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 %
24 Mar 1783 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Adventures of a Night No No No £166 7s 49% N/A
03 Jun 1783 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Golden Pippin, The Rival Nymphs, Tally Ho! No No Yes £227 14s 6d 100% N/A
30 Sep 1783 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Quaker No No No £285 16s 100% N/A
02 Oct 1783 Drury Lane Hamlet, High Life below Stairs, Mock Minuet No No No £232 4s 6d 63% N/A
03 Oct 1783 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Padlock No No No £199 4s 6d 100% N/A
04 Oct 1783 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Englishman in Paris, Minuet No No No £242 16s 100% N/A
06 Oct 1783 Drury Lane Hamlet, Robinson Crusoe No No No £198 7s 49% N/A
13 Oct 1783 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Triumph of Mirth or Harlequins Wedding No No No £187 50% N/A
23 Oct 1783 Covent Garden Hamlet, Rosina No No No £221 10s 6d 100% N/A
28 Oct 1783 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Citizen No No No £160 5s 47% N/A
29 Oct 1783 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Choice of Harlequin No No No £126 13s 6d 48% N/A
15 Nov 1783 Drury Lane Hamlet, Comus No No No £149 11s 6d 34% N/A
25 Nov 1783 Drury Lane Hamlet, Fortunatus No No No £128 14s 45% N/A
27 Dec 1783 Drury Lane Hamlet, Fortunatus No No No £123 8s 6d 38% N/A
06 Jan 1784 Drury Lane Hamlet, Too Civil by Half No No No £102 3s 6d 44% N/A
19 Jan 1784 Drury Lane Hamlet, Harlequin Junior No No No £256 7s 6d 59% N/A
08 Mar 1784 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Double Disguise, The Return of the Hunters No No No £167 12s 6d 47% N/A
20 Sep 1784 Covent Garden Hamlet, Harlequin Rambler or The Convent in an Uproar No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Sep 1784 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Irish Widow, The Irish Fair No No No £97 12s 6d N/A N/A
01 Nov 1784 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Double Disguise No No No £101 18s 6d N/A N/A
11 Jan 1785 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Englishman in Paris, Minuet de la Cour No No No £146 11s 6d N/A N/A
15 Feb 1785 Covent Garden Hamlet, Rosina No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
22 Apr 1785 Covent Garden Hamlet, Comus, From Tyrant Laws and Customs Free, Live and Love No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
23 Sep 1785 Covent Garden Hamlet, Comus No No No £150 13s 6d 100% N/A
17 Nov 1785 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Caldron, The Provencalle No No No £93 19s 6d 24% N/A
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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