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 %
09 Jan 1794 Covent Garden Hamlet, Harlequin And Faustus, Dirge No No No £325 8s 6d 100% N/A
28 Jan 1794 Covent Garden Hamlet, Harlequin And Faustus, Dirge No No No £240 11s 100% N/A
21 Feb 1794 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Poor Soldier, Dirge No No No £195 7s 6d 100% N/A
10 May 1794 Covent Garden Hamlet, A Divertisement, Margaret Of Anjou, Dirge, Black Eyed Susan Yes No Yes £231 17s 27% N/A
29 Sep 1794 Covent Garden Hamlet, Harlequin and Faustus, Dirge [music by Shield, words from Shakespeare] No No No £320 17s 100% N/A
13 Oct 1794 Covent Garden Hamlet, Harlequin and Faustus, Dirge [music by Shield, words from Shakespeare] No No No £204 1s 41% N/A
29 Dec 1794 Covent Garden Hamlet, Mago and Dago, Dirge [music by Shield, words from Shakespeare] No No No £298 4s 59% N/A
12 Jan 1795 Covent Garden Hamlet, Mago and Dago No No No £216 14s 43% N/A
19 Oct 1795 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Ghost, Dirge No No No £221 9s 6d 39% N/A
26 Oct 1795 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Shipwreck, Dirge No No No £221 12s 6d 39% N/A
02 Nov 1795 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Death of Captain Cook, Dirge No No No £196 2s 37% N/A
29 Apr 1796 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Wedding Day No No Yes £498 18s 72% N/A
12 May 1796 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Follies of a Day No No Yes £466 11s 6d 70% N/A
27 May 1796 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Sons of Anacreon, Rosina, Imitations No No Yes £157 4s N/A N/A
02 Jun 1796 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Follies of a Day No No Yes £157 18s N/A N/A
12 Sep 1796 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Doldrum or 1803, Dirge No No No £281 1s 6d 100% N/A
24 Oct 1796 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Devil to Pay No No No £427 19s 67% N/A
31 Oct 1796 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Virgin Unmasked, The Scotch Ghost No No No £400 11s 61% N/A
07 Nov 1796 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Charity Boy No No No £290 9s 6d 53% N/A
21 Nov 1796 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Smugglers No No No £275 19s 61% N/A
05 Dec 1796 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Doctor and the Apothecary No No No £201 10s 55% N/A
03 May 1797 Drury Lane Hamlet, My Grandmother, The Scotch Ghost No No No £250 2s 6d 63% N/A
25 May 1797 Drury Lane Hamlet, Richard Coeur de Lion No No Yes £288 3s 6d 76% N/A
25 Sep 1797 Covent Garden Hamlet, Lock and Key, Dirge No No No £248 18s 100% N/A
05 Oct 1797 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Devil to Pay No No No £543 8s 100% N/A
09 Oct 1797 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Chimney Corner No No No £366 10s 58% N/A
16 Oct 1797 Drury Lane Hamlet, My Grandmother No No No £369 3s 6d 59% N/A
23 Oct 1797 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Doctor and the Apothecary, Representation of the English and Dutch Fleets, God Save the King, Rule Britannia No No No £220 9s 6d 46% N/A
13 Nov 1797 Drury Lane Hamlet, Sylvester Daggerwood, A Trip to the Nore No No No £351 14s 57% N/A
27 Nov 1797 Drury Lane Hamlet, Fast Asleep No No No £251 6s 46% N/A
24 Jan 1798 Drury Lane Hamlet, Blue Beard No No No £461 1s 6d 66% N/A
08 Feb 1798 Drury Lane Hamlet, Blue Beard No No No £417 18s 53% N/A
15 Feb 1798 Drury Lane Hamlet, Blue Beard No No No £244 6s 6d 39% N/A
01 Mar 1798 Drury Lane Hamlet, Blue Beard No No No £466 11s 56% N/A
20 Mar 1798 Drury Lane Hamlet, Blue Beard No No No £371 2s 62% N/A
24 Apr 1798 Drury Lane Hamlet, Blue Beard No No No £245 9s 6d 52% N/A
28 Apr 1798 Covent Garden Hamlet, Hooly and Fairly or The Highland Lad and Lowland Lass, A Divertisement, Highland Reel, Dirge, Andrew And His Cutty Gun, Ballet, Highland Laddy, Hooly and Fairly, Katharine Ogie, The Little Farthing Rushlight, Todlen Hame, Tulloch Goram No No Yes £230 19s 6d 37% N/A
14 May 1798 Drury Lane Hamlet, Blue Beard No No No £264 7s 6d 70% N/A
17 Sep 1798 Covent Garden Hamlet, Botheration or A Ten Years Blunder, Dirge No No No £242 5s 6d 100% N/A
24 Sep 1798 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Miser, Dirge No No No £215 11s 100% N/A
04 Oct 1798 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Apprentice No No No £268 2s 6d 100% N/A
16 Oct 1798 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Outlaws No No No £258 5s 6d 100% N/A
11 Feb 1799 Drury Lane Hamlet, Feudal Times No No No £266 14s 57% N/A
18 Feb 1799 Drury Lane Hamlet, Feudal Times No No No £312 13s 6d 55% N/A
18 Apr 1799 Drury Lane Hamlet, Sylvester Daggerwood, The Village Lawyer No No Yes £640 5s 6d 39% N/A
19 Sep 1799 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Virgin Unmasked No No No £330 17s 100% N/A
10 Oct 1799 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Embarkation No No No £229 17s 52% N/A
28 Oct 1799 Drury Lane Hamlet, Blue Beard No No No £409 12s 6d 70% N/A
04 Nov 1799 Drury Lane Hamlet, Blue Beard No No No £303 13s 53% N/A
11 Nov 1799 Drury Lane Hamlet, Blue Beard No No No £257 3s 6d 47% N/A
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