The Merchant of Venice (1600)

Author
William Shakespeare
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
£43,264 3s 5d £27,973 15s 5d (64.7%) £15,290 8s (35.3%)
1732 - 1809
£43,264 3s 5d - (100%) £27,973 15s 5d (64.7%) £15,290 8s (35.3%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
325 176 149
1732 - 1809
325 176 149
Notes
Performed first 1596-98.
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
16 Dec 1796 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Citizen No No No £205 1s 72% N/A
11 Feb 1797 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, A Friend in Need, In Vows of Everlasting Truth No No No £258 1s 50% N/A
03 Nov 1797 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, The Citizen No Yes No £413 17s 74% N/A
02 Dec 1797 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Children in the Wood No No No £169 6s 6d 37% N/A
13 Dec 1797 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Citizen No No No £134 15s 47% N/A
18 May 1798 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, The Farmer No No Yes £401 16s 2d 14% N/A
13 Nov 1798 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Children in the Wood No No No £156 14s 38% N/A
07 Jun 1799 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, The Brilliants, Comus, Naiads, Maria, Or the Beggar Girl, The Negro Boy No No Yes £287 7s 10% N/A
08 Nov 1799 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, High Life below Stairs, Mock Minuet No No No £173 14s 6d 42% N/A
21 Apr 1800 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Deserter No No No £245 19s 53% N/A
19 May 1800 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Devil to Pay No No Yes £353 10s 6d 34% N/A
18 Oct 1800 Drury Lane The Merchant of Venice, Of Age To-morrow No No No £433 2s 6d 100% N/A
05 Nov 1800 Drury Lane The Merchant of Venice, The Humourist, Actaeon and Diana No No No £294 3s 55% N/A
10 Nov 1800 Covent Garden The Merchant of Venice, Oscar and Malvina No No No £301 16s 41% N/A
13 Nov 1800 Covent Garden The Merchant of Venice, Love A-la-Mode No Yes No £267 1s 6d 60% N/A
20 Nov 1800 Covent Garden The Merchant of Venice, Love A-la-Mode No No No £262 2s 6d 50% N/A
26 Nov 1800 Covent Garden The Merchant of Venice, Il Bondocani No Yes No £402 4s 68% N/A
02 Jan 1801 Covent Garden The Merchant of Venice, Harlequin's Tour; or, The Dominion of Fancy No No No £356 6s 64% N/A
29 Jan 1801 Covent Garden The Merchant of Venice, Harlequin's Tour; or, The Dominion of Fancy, pantomime No No No £337 7s 6d 52% N/A
07 Mar 1801 Covent Garden The Merchant of Venice, Perouse; or, The Desolate Island No No No £346 2s 9d 43% N/A
18 Apr 1801 Covent Garden The Merchant of Venice, Love a-la-mode No No No £222 4s 49% N/A
13 May 1801 Covent Garden The Merchant of Venice, Love a-la-Mode No No No £214 8s 6d 38% N/A
27 May 1801 Covent Garden The Merchant of Venice, Love a la Mode No No Yes £246 8s 44% N/A
03 Oct 1801 Drury Lane The Merchant of Venice, Blue Beard; or, Female Curiosity No No No £233 4s 32% N/A
21 Oct 1801 Covent Garden The Merchant of Venice, Love-a-la-Mode No No No £322 16s 6d 56% N/A
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