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 %
22 Dec 1741 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, Le Genereux Corsaire, Les Jardiniers Suedois Yes No No £50 N/A N/A
11 Jan 1742 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, See from the Silent Groves, Les Matelotes, Les Satires Puny Yes No No £100 N/A N/A
06 Mar 1742 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, Les Egyptiens, Happy Pair, Les Satires Puny, Early Horn No No No £110 N/A N/A
18 Mar 1742 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, Harlequin Shipwrecked, Celia Has Ten Thousand Charms, The Swiss No No No £100 N/A N/A
23 Apr 1742 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The King and Miller of Mansfield, La Matelote, Let Me Wander Not Unseen, Bumper Squire Jones, Pastor Fido No No Yes £130 N/A N/A
07 May 1742 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, Miss Lucy in Town No No No £100 N/A N/A
11 Sep 1742 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Mock Doctor No No No £95 13s 100% N/A
23 Sep 1742 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, Concerto, Happy Pair, Tyrolean Dance, Peasant Dance No Yes No £93 14s 100% N/A
25 Oct 1742 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Mock Doctor, Les Matelotes, Turkish Seraglio No No No £41 14s N/A N/A
27 Nov 1742 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, Les Matelotes, Turkish Seraglio No No No £43 13s N/A N/A
21 Jan 1743 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, Neopolitan Punch, Italian Gardiners No No No £64 1s N/A N/A
15 Apr 1743 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The What DYe Call It, Gentle Parthenissa, Concerto on German flute, Caesar and Urania No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
20 May 1743 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Lying Valet, Serious Ballet, Tyrolean Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
13 Mar 1744 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, The Lottery, My Faith and Truth, Scotch Dance, Britons Strike Home No Yes Yes Unknown N/A N/A
07 Apr 1744 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, The Rape of Proserpine, Bacchanalian Song, Minuet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
26 Apr 1744 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, The Royal Chace No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
04 May 1744 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Devil to Pay No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
19 Dec 1744 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Devil to Pay, Grand Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Dec 1744 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Anatomist, Grand Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Jan 1745 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Anatomist, Grand Dance Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Jan 1745 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, Temple of Dulness No No No Unknown N/A N/A
04 Feb 1745 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, Rosamond, New Shepherd's Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
04 Mar 1745 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Dragon of Wantley, Shepherds Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
23 Apr 1745 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, The Virgin Unmasked, Comic Dance, La Gondalier, Minuet, The Louvre Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
27 Apr 1745 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Anatomist, Gentle Shepherd No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
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