The Amorous Widow; or, The Wanton Wife (1670)

Author
Thomas Betterton
Work Type
Mainpiece
Genre
Comedy
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
£735 19s 6d £735 19s 6d (100%) £0 (0%)
1732 - 1809
£735 19s 6d - (100%) £735 19s 6d (100%) £0 (0%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
33 22 11
1732 - 1809
33 22 11
Notes
Adapted from Molière's George Dandin (1668).
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
28 May 1739 Covent Garden The Amorous Widow, The Lucky Discovery, Pierots, Ballet, Grecian Sailors, Hornpipe No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
07 Nov 1739 Drury Lane The Amorous Widow Or The Wanton Wife, The Lottery, Grand Ballet, Flavius No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
07 May 1740 Covent Garden The Amorous Widow, The School Boy, Tambourine, Comic Dance, Grecian Sailors, New Serious Ballet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
07 Mar 1741 Covent Garden The Amorous Widow Or The Wanton Wife, Serious Dance to Favourite Tunes from the Opera of Lothario, Italian Peasants, Louvre, Minuet, The Comic Dance of the Old Woman with Pierot in the Basket, The Matelots No Yes Yes £222 12s 6d N/A N/A
01 Apr 1742 Covent Garden The Amorous Widow Or The Wanton Wife, New Scots Dance, Rural Assembly, Louvre, Minuet, Tambourine, The Britannia No Yes Yes Unknown N/A N/A
27 Apr 1742 Covent Garden The Amorous Widow, Orpheus and Eurydice, New Comic Dance, Sailors Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
17 Feb 1746 Covent Garden The Amorous Widow Or Wanton Wife, Orpheus and Eurydice No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Feb 1746 Covent Garden The Amorous Widow, Duke and no Duke No No No Unknown N/A N/A
17 Apr 1746 Covent Garden The Amorous Widow, Loves of Mars and Venus, Pigmalion, The Revellers No Yes Yes Unknown N/A N/A
06 Jan 1752 Covent Garden The Amorous Widow Or The Wanton Wife, Perseus and Andromeda, Concerto on cymbal No No No Unknown N/A N/A
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