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 %
05 Mar 1793 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Humourist No No No £139 11s 31% N/A
10 Mar 1795 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, Alexander the Great No No No £285 7s 6d 69% N/A
12 May 1796 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, Arrived at Portsmouth, The Irish Mimick, Hunting Song, Hearts of Oak, Here We Laugh and Work Together, O Why to be Happy, Old Towler, We've Bade the Restless Seas Adieu, When Love was a Stranger, With Pride We Steer'd for England's Coast No No Yes £219 12s 6d 30% N/A
30 Sep 1796 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, The Poor Soldier No No No £281 17s 100% N/A
07 Oct 1796 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, The Wicklow Mountains No No No £220 19s 6d 100% N/A
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
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