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 %
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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