King Lear (1608)

Author
William Shakespeare
Author
Nahum Tate (1681)
Author
George Colman, the elder (1768)
Author
David Garrick (1756)
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
£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
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
04 Nov 1791 Covent Garden King Lear, Oscar and Malvina No No No £138 17s 6d 41% N/A
06 Mar 1792 Drury Lane King Lear, The Deserter No No No £350 9s 6d 67% N/A
16 Feb 1793 Drury Lane King Lear, The Cheats of Scapin No No No £183 13s 36% N/A
06 Jan 1794 Covent Garden King Lear And His Three Daughters, Harlequin And Faustus No No No £297 16s 100% N/A
20 Jan 1794 Covent Garden King Lear, Harlequin And Faustus No No No £383 8s 100% N/A
31 Jan 1794 Covent Garden King Lear, Harlequin And Faustus No No No £242 2s 6d 100% N/A
21 Apr 1794 Covent Garden King Lear, Harlequin And Faustus No No No £316 5s 6d 33% N/A
12 May 1794 Covent Garden British Fortitude And Hibernian Friendship, King Lear, Netley Abbey No No No £141 10s 23% N/A
19 Jan 1795 Covent Garden King Lear, Mago and Dago No No No £176 3s 6d 40% N/A
17 Feb 1795 Covent Garden King Lear, Crotchet Lodge No No No £108 14s 6d 24% N/A
28 Sep 1795 Covent Garden King Lear, Rosina No No No £271 17s 6d 100% N/A
20 Nov 1795 Drury Lane King Lear, The Village Lawyer No No No £214 19s 6d 56% N/A
25 Apr 1796 Covent Garden King Lear, The Doldrum No No No £234 4s 38% N/A
10 Oct 1796 Covent Garden King Lear, The Wicklow Mountains No No No £158 1s 36% N/A
20 Nov 1797 Covent Garden King Lear, Barataria or Sancho Turned Governor No No No £192 16s 50% N/A
29 Oct 1799 Covent Garden King Lear, The Naval Pillar, Solemn Dirge, A Bundle of Proverbs, An Hungry Fox One Day Did Spy, Black Ey'd Susan, Britons, Your Country's Gratitude Behold, In Praise of the Tars Who Have Leathered the Word, Sir Sydney Smith, The Embarkation, The Navy and Army of Britain Forever, We Come, Ye Guardians of Our Isle, When a Tar Returns Home, When Britain First Her Flag Upreared, When Peace Smiles Around No No No £161 7s 45% N/A
03 Jan 1801 Drury Lane King Lear, Harlequin-Amulet; or, The Magick of Mona No No No £375 10s 6d 59% N/A
08 Jan 1801 Drury Lane King Lear, Harlequin Amulet; or, The Magick of Mona No No No £292 12s 6d 50% N/A
10 Jan 1801 Drury Lane King Lear, Harlequin Amulet; or, The Magick of Mona No No No £311 7s 6d 51% N/A
17 Jan 1801 Drury Lane King Lear, Harlequin Amulet; or, The Magick of Mona No No No £277 19s 48% N/A
24 Jan 1801 Drury Lane King Lear, Harlequin Amulet; or, The Magick of Mona No No No £278 1s 6d 53% N/A
31 Jan 1801 Drury Lane King Lear, The Veteran Tar No No No £324 8s 51% N/A
07 Feb 1801 Drury Lane King Lear, The Veteran Tar No No No £243 19s 51% N/A
08 Jan 1802 Covent Garden King Lear, Harlequin's Almanack; or, The Four Seasons No No No £293 11s 6d 57% N/A
21 May 1807 Covent Garden King Lear, Love A La Mode No No Yes £341 4s 59% N/A
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