Theatronomics

King Lear (1608)

Work Type

Mainpiece

Genre

Tragedy

Performance Medium

Spoken Drama

Associated work receipts	Covent Garden	Drury Lane
£31,384 15s	£15,130 10s 6d (48.2%)	£16,254 4s 6d (51.8%)
1732 - 1809
£31,384 15s - (100%)	£15,130 10s 6d (48.2%)	£16,254 4s 6d (51.8%)

Total Performances	Covent Garden	Drury Lane
258	133	125
1732 - 1809
258	133	125

Notes

Nahum Tate's 1681 infamous 'happy ending' adaptation dominated this period. David Garrick (1756) and George Colman (1768) introduced later adaptations closer to the original Shakespeare version..

Theatre

Covent Garden

Drury Lane

Mainpiece/afterpieces

Show mainpieces/afterpieces only

Years

1732

1809

Most common pairings

Dates	Theatre	Performances	Requested	Commands	Benefit	Revenue	Available Revenue %	Capacity %
28 Oct 1756	Drury Lane	King Lear, The Anatomist	No	No	No	£200	N/A	N/A
30 Oct 1756	Drury Lane	King Lear, The Chaplet	No	No	No	£200	N/A	N/A
01 Mar 1757	Covent Garden	King Lear, The Englishman Returned from Paris	No	Yes	No	Unknown	N/A	N/A
21 Mar 1757	Covent Garden	King Lear, The Honest Yorkshireman	No	No	Yes	Unknown	N/A	N/A
10 Nov 1757	Drury Lane	King Lear, The Anatomist	No	No	No	£210	73%	N/A
12 Nov 1757	Drury Lane	King Lear, The Virgin Unmasked	No	No	No	£200	77%	N/A
17 Nov 1757	Drury Lane	King Lear, The Italian Peasants	Yes	No	No	£180	65%	N/A
05 Dec 1757	Covent Garden	King Lear And His Three Daughters, The Virgin Unmasked, Jovial Coopers	No	No	No	£203 8s 6d	56%	N/A
10 Jan 1758	Covent Garden	King Lear, The Contrivances, Fingalian Dance	No	No	No	£109 9s 6d	44%	N/A
18 Feb 1758	Covent Garden	King Lear, The Contrivances, Jovial Coopers	No	No	No	£112 13s 6d	36%	N/A

Performances

Commands

Drury Lane

King Lear, The Anatomist