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 %
13 May 1745 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, Tragedy of Tragedies, Gentle Shepherd, Water Music, Early Horn No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
23 Nov 1745 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Anatomist, The Subscription No No No £84 4s 6d N/A N/A
06 Dec 1745 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Anatomist, Grand Serious Dance, The Subscription No No No £30 6d N/A N/A
10 Jan 1746 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Anatomist, Tambourine No No No £55 8s N/A N/A
08 Feb 1746 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Stage Coach, Peasant Dance Yes No No £50 N/A N/A
10 Mar 1746 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, Phebe, Drunken Tyrolese, Peasant Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
22 Mar 1746 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Double Disappointment, Gentle Shepherd No No Yes £43 N/A N/A
26 Apr 1746 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, The Royal Chace, The Drunken Tyrolese No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
03 May 1746 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Double Disappointment No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
23 Sep 1746 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Anatomist or the Sham Doctor No No No £135 100% N/A
12 Nov 1746 Drury Lane Merchant Of Venice, The Lying Valet No No No £17 11% N/A
29 Jan 1747 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Debauchees Yes No No £40 19% N/A
09 Feb 1747 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice No No No £70 35% N/A
27 Feb 1747 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice No No Yes £60 N/A N/A
16 May 1747 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Double Disappointment, On on My Dear Brethren, Wooden Shoe Dance, Come Let Us Prepare, Song Upon the Account of Free Masonry Yes No Yes £90 N/A N/A
15 Sep 1747 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice No No No £126 12s 100% N/A
27 Oct 1747 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, Miss in Her Teens Yes No No £88 14s 100% N/A
01 Jan 1748 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, Miss in Her Teens, Tambourine, Dutch Dance, Savoyards Yes No No £118 1s 6d N/A N/A
09 May 1748 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Double Disappointment, Savoyards, Pastoral Dance No No Yes £220 N/A N/A
03 Nov 1748 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The School Boy, Scots Sonato, L'Entree de Flore, Vertumnus and Pomona, The Savoyards No No No £49 12s N/A N/A
10 Jan 1749 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, Lethe, Characters de la Dance, Italian Cabaret Yes No No £124 8s 6d N/A N/A
14 Apr 1749 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, Miss in Her Teens, Hornpipe, Ye Scene of Peace, Grand Dance, Savoyards, Scotch Dance No No Yes £180 N/A N/A
21 Sep 1749 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Virgin Unmasked No No No £70 100% N/A
20 Oct 1749 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Anatomist, Comic Dance No No No £40 48% N/A
22 Feb 1750 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Miller of Mansfield, Comic Dance, Swedish Gardeners No No Yes £273 2s N/A N/A
04 May 1750 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, A Duke and no Duke, The Reasonable Lover, Hornpipe, Black Joke, Swedish Gardeners Yes No Yes £200 N/A N/A
08 Sep 1750 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Virgin Unmasked No No No £110 100% N/A
18 Oct 1750 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, Hob in the Well, Grand Scotch Ballet No No No Unknown N/A N/A
16 Nov 1750 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, Perseus and Andromeda No No No Unknown N/A N/A
02 Jan 1751 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, Perseus and Andromeda No No No Unknown N/A N/A
06 May 1751 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, The Lottery, The Characters of Dancing, Drunken Peasant, Hornpipe, The Gondoliers No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
10 Sep 1751 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Anatomist or The Sham Doctor No No No £120 100% N/A
16 Nov 1751 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, The Necromancer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Nov 1751 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, The Necromancer Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
23 Nov 1751 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, The Necromancer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
03 Dec 1751 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, The Necromancer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
30 Dec 1751 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, The Necromancer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Jan 1752 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, Taste, Comic Dance No No Yes £230 N/A N/A
07 Feb 1752 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, The Contrivances, Grand Comic Ballet No No No Unknown N/A N/A
29 Apr 1752 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, The Contrivances, Drunken Peasant No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
02 May 1752 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, Don Quixote, Hornpipe, Comic Dance No No Yes £170 N/A N/A
19 Sep 1752 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Anatomist, Punch Dance No No No £55 100% N/A
06 Oct 1752 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, Damon and Phillida No No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Nov 1752 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, Harlequin Ranger No No No £100 N/A N/A
21 Nov 1752 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, The Fair, Les Charboniers, Les Sabotiers Tyrolese No No No Unknown N/A N/A
04 Jan 1753 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, Harlequin Skeleton No No No Unknown N/A N/A
11 Jan 1753 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Genii No No No £160 N/A N/A
26 Jan 1753 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
23 Apr 1753 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, The What Dye Call It, Il Pastore, Grand Scots Ballet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
06 Apr 1754 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, The Lying Valet, Les Taileurs, Italian Peasants Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
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