As You Like It (1623)

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
£32,418 13s 9d £5,604 19s 6d (17.3%) £26,813 14s 3d (82.7%)
1732 - 1809
£32,418 13s 9d - (100%) £5,604 19s 6d (17.3%) £26,813 14s 3d (82.7%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
288 82 206
1732 - 1809
288 82 206
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
20 May 1742 Drury Lane As You Like It, Miss Lucy in Town, Concerto, Le Boufon No No Yes £80 N/A N/A
14 Sep 1742 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Devil to Pay No No No £84 18s 100% N/A
14 Oct 1742 Drury Lane As You Like It, Concerto, La Mascarada, Les Matelotes No No No £31 16s 6d N/A N/A
27 Oct 1742 Drury Lane As You Like It, Miss Lucy in Town, Turkish Seraglio No No No £40 2s 6d N/A N/A
30 Nov 1742 Drury Lane As You Like It, Miss Lucy in Town, Grand Comic Dance, Les Moisoneurs de la Styrie Yes No No £73 9s N/A N/A
21 Dec 1742 Drury Lane As You Like It, Les Moisoneurs de la Styrie, La Recrue des Houssars No No No £27 7s 6d N/A N/A
06 Jan 1743 Drury Lane As You Like It, The King and Miller of Mansfield, Concerto on German flute, Concerto on violoncello No No No £32 14s N/A N/A
23 May 1743 Drury Lane As You Like It, The King and Miller of Mansfield, New Ballet, Concerto on German flute, The Noontide Air, Concerto on violin, New Hussar Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
05 Jan 1744 Covent Garden As You Like It, The Royal Chace No No No Unknown N/A N/A
06 Jan 1744 Covent Garden As You Like It, The Royal Chace No No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Jan 1744 Covent Garden As You Like It, The Royal Chace No No No Unknown N/A N/A
10 Jan 1744 Covent Garden As You Like It, The Necromancer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
13 Jan 1744 Covent Garden As You Like It, The Royal Chace No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Jan 1744 Covent Garden As You Like It, The Rape of Proserpine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
11 Feb 1744 Covent Garden As You Like It, The Rape of Proserpine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Feb 1744 Covent Garden As You Like It, Orpheus and Eurydice No No No Unknown N/A N/A
27 Mar 1744 Covent Garden As You Like It, Orpheus and Eurydice No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
23 May 1744 Covent Garden As You Like It, Orpheus and Eurydice No No No Unknown N/A N/A
26 Sep 1744 Covent Garden As You Like It, The Devil to Pay or The Wives Metamorphosed No No No Unknown N/A N/A
02 Nov 1744 Covent Garden As You Like It, The Lottery, Chacone, Scotch Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Nov 1744 Covent Garden As You Like It, The Royal Chace No No No Unknown N/A N/A
19 Dec 1744 Covent Garden As You Like It, The Rape of Proserpine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
29 Jan 1745 Covent Garden As You Like It, Pyramus and Thisbe No No No Unknown N/A N/A
24 Apr 1745 Covent Garden As You Like It, Old England Forever, The Miser's Passport Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
25 Sep 1745 Covent Garden As You Like It, The Virgin Unmasked No No No Unknown N/A N/A
05 Dec 1745 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Devil to Pay, The Subscription No No No £41 16s 6d N/A N/A
31 Dec 1745 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Stage Coach No No No £53 5s 6d N/A N/A
21 Jan 1746 Covent Garden As You Like It, The Royal Chace No No No Unknown N/A N/A
19 Dec 1746 Covent Garden As You Like It, The Royal Chace No No No £90 10s 6d 48% N/A
01 Jan 1747 Covent Garden As You Like It, Orpheus and Eurydice, Turkish Pirate, Laundress's Visiting Day No No No £89 6s 6d 60% N/A
09 Mar 1747 Covent Garden As You Like It, Orpheus and Eurydice, Turkish Pirate, Laundress's Visiting Day No No No £79 16s 67% N/A
23 Apr 1747 Covent Garden As You Like It, Miss in Her Teens, Comic Dance, Ball Minuet, Grand Ballet No No Yes £110 8s 6d N/A N/A
02 Nov 1747 Drury Lane As You Like It, Les Caprices de la Dance, Grand Ballet, Polish Dance No No No £99 8s 100% N/A
26 Nov 1747 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Lying Valet, The Gardners Revels, Polish Dance No No No £86 14s 100% N/A
08 Mar 1748 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Virgin Unmasked, Tambourine, Dutch Dance, Savoyards No No No £62 4s N/A N/A
16 May 1748 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Anatomist, Peasant Dance, Comic Dance, Hornpipe No No Yes £180 N/A N/A
11 Nov 1748 Covent Garden As You Like It, Apollo and Daphne No No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Oct 1750 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Lying Valet, Hornpipe No No No £50 N/A N/A
06 Dec 1750 Drury Lane As You Like It, Miss in Her Teens, Comic Dance No No Yes £280 N/A N/A
03 Jan 1751 Drury Lane As You Like It, Queen Mab, Hornpipe No No No £140 N/A N/A
21 Apr 1752 Drury Lane As You Like It, Don Quixote in England, Hornpipe, Elogium to Shakespeare No No Yes £160 N/A N/A
25 Nov 1752 Drury Lane As You Like It, Queen Mab, Dutch Dance, Comic Dance, The Hungarian Peasants No No No £100 N/A N/A
14 Dec 1752 Drury Lane As You Like It, Harlequin Ranger, Le Matelot Basque No No No £120 N/A N/A
26 Dec 1752 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Genii, Arabian Nights Entertainment No No No £200 N/A N/A
13 Mar 1753 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Genii No No No £130 N/A N/A
23 Apr 1753 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Genii No No No £180 N/A N/A
13 Sep 1753 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Chaplet, Hornpipe No No No £60 100% N/A
22 Oct 1753 Covent Garden As You Like It, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Nov 1753 Drury Lane As You Like It, Mr Foote's Tea, New Dutch Dance No No No £80 N/A N/A
21 May 1754 Covent Garden As You Like It, The Double Disappointment, Italian Peasants No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
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