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 %
17 Apr 1759 Drury Lane Hamlet, Fortunatus No No Yes £160 N/A N/A
30 Apr 1759 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Englishman Returnd from Paris, The Drunken Peasant, The Goldfinch's Address to Chloe, The Country Wedding, The Milkmaid's Holiday No No Yes £156 3s 6d N/A N/A
23 May 1759 Drury Lane Hamlet, Miss in Her Teens, Louvre, Minuet Yes No Yes £140 N/A N/A
29 Sep 1759 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Anatomist No No No £210 100% N/A
27 Nov 1759 Drury Lane Hamlet, High Life Below Stairs No No No £100 40% N/A
18 Mar 1760 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Country Wake or Hob in the Well, Comic Dance, The Lamp Lighters Yes No Yes £269 6s 6d N/A N/A
21 Apr 1760 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Upholsterer, The Cow Keepers No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
10 May 1760 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Millers No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Oct 1760 Covent Garden Hamlet, Lethe No No No £141 100% N/A
27 Nov 1760 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Double Disappointment, The Mad Doctor No No No Unknown N/A N/A
10 Dec 1760 Drury Lane Hamlet, Queen Mab Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Dec 1760 Covent Garden Hamlet, Florizel and Perdita, Les Charboniers No No Yes £194 1s 6d N/A N/A
09 Mar 1761 Drury Lane Hamlet, Edgar and Emmeline No No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Apr 1761 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Guardian No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
24 Apr 1761 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Devil to Pay, The Waggoners, Hornpipe No No Yes £145 8s N/A N/A
03 Jun 1761 Drury Lane Hamlet, Polly Honeycombe No No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Sep 1761 Drury Lane Hamlet, Harlequin's Invasion No No No Unknown N/A N/A
10 Oct 1761 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Chaplet, The Pedlar Tricked No No No £72 15s N/A N/A
13 Oct 1761 Drury Lane Hamlet, Polly Honeycombe No No No Unknown N/A N/A
24 Nov 1761 Drury Lane Hamlet, Arcadia No No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Dec 1761 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Contrivances No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
19 Jan 1762 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Genii No No No Unknown N/A N/A
04 May 1762 Drury Lane Hamlet, Catharine and Petruchio, Comic Dance, The Farmer's Return from London Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
07 May 1762 Covent Garden Hamlet, Damon and Phillida, Serious Dance, Hornpipe, The Taylors No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
27 Sep 1762 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Cheats of Scapin No No No Unknown N/A N/A
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