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 %
26 Jan 1769 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, Queen Mab No No No Unknown N/A N/A
30 Mar 1769 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Padlock, New Comic Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
03 May 1769 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Register Office, New Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
19 May 1769 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Deuce Is in Him, The Wake No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
05 Oct 1769 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Padlock, Comic Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
26 Oct 1769 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Jubilee No No No Unknown N/A N/A
02 Dec 1769 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Jubilee No No No Unknown N/A N/A
27 Mar 1770 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, The Upholsterer, The Whim No No Yes £207 5s 6d N/A N/A
05 Apr 1770 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, Love a la Mode, The Whim, Minuet No No Yes £290 8s N/A N/A
29 May 1770 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Jubilee No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
22 Oct 1770 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Jubilee, The Rabbit Sellers No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Dec 1770 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, A Trip to Scotland, Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
03 Apr 1771 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, Love a la Mode, Minuet, An Allemande No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
24 Apr 1771 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Elopement, The Medley No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
07 May 1771 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, The Padlock, The Wapping Landlady, Double Hornpipe No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
03 Oct 1771 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Padlock, Comic Dance No No No £185 17s 100% N/A
22 Oct 1771 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, Love a la Mode, The Lamplighter No No No £244 19s 6d 64% N/A
24 Oct 1771 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, Love a la Mode, Corsican Sailor's Punch House No No No £240 9s 6d 51% N/A
26 Oct 1771 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, Love a la Mode, The Jealous Woodcutters, The Merry Sailors Yes No No £209 1s 64% N/A
29 Oct 1771 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, Love a la Mode, The Corsican Sailors, Corsican Sailor's Punch House, The Lamplighter No No No £195 3s 6d 51% N/A
31 Oct 1771 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, Love a la Mode, Comic Dance, The Tartars No No No £203 10s 6d 48% N/A
11 Jan 1772 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, Lethe, The Amusements of Strasburgh No No No £245 11s 64% N/A
02 May 1772 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Mayor of Garratt, Scrub's Trip to the Jubilee, The Sailors' Revels, A Variety of Imitations No No Yes £141 2s 6d 41% N/A
13 May 1772 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, Catherine and Petruchio, Comic Dance, Tambourine No No Yes £159 17s 51% N/A
04 Jan 1773 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Pigmy Revels, Comic Dance No No No £199 19s 53% N/A
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