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
£39,079 14s 9d £6,198 9s (15.9%) £32,881 5s 9d (84.1%)
1732 - 1809
£39,079 14s 9d - (100%) £6,198 9s (15.9%) £32,881 5s 9d (84.1%)
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 %
01 Feb 1775 Covent Garden As You Like It, The Two Misers, The Enchantress No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Mar 1775 Covent Garden As You Like It, The Two Misers, The Frolick, The Cries of London, Journey to Paris No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
29 Apr 1775 Covent Garden As You Like It, Cross Purposes, New Comic Dance, The Enchantress, The Humours of Blackwall or The Indiaman Returned No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
13 May 1775 Covent Garden As You Like It, The Country Madcap, Comic Dance, The Shady Blest Retreat Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
20 May 1775 Drury Lane As You Like It, Polly Honeycomb, The Pirates No No Yes £276 4s 6d N/A N/A
26 Sep 1775 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Theatrical Candidates, The Note of Hand, The Schoolmaster No No No £243 16s 100% N/A
13 Oct 1775 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Theatrical Candidates, Harlequin's Jacket, The Irish Fair No No No £132 16s 6d N/A N/A
18 Oct 1775 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Irish Widow, The Merry Peasants, The Irish Fair No Yes No £260 12s N/A N/A
05 Feb 1776 Covent Garden As You Like It, Prometheus, Mirth and Jollity Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
19 Mar 1776 Covent Garden As You Like It, The Imposters or A Cure for Credulity, Mirth and Jollity, New Hornpipe Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
12 Apr 1776 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Waterman, The Sailors' Revels, New Imitations No No Yes £82 3s 6d N/A N/A
07 May 1776 Covent Garden As You Like It, Midas, Rural Merriment, Kate of Aberdeen No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
10 May 1776 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Waterman, The Sailors' Revels Yes No Yes £30 15s N/A N/A
09 Oct 1776 Drury Lane New Brooms, As You Like It, Bon Ton or High Life above Stairs, The Grand Garland Dance No Yes No £267 6s 59% N/A
12 Nov 1776 Covent Garden As You Like It, The Padlock, Mirth and Jollity, Dance of Foresters No No No £125 15s 6d 50% N/A
03 May 1777 Drury Lane As You Like It, All the World's a Stage, Grand Dance No No Yes £257 2s 59% N/A
03 Dec 1777 Drury Lane As You Like It, High Life below Stairs, Rural Grace No No No £92 7s 36% N/A
24 Feb 1778 Covent Garden As You Like It, Mother Shipton, The Humours of Leixlip, Dance of Forresters No No No £164 12s 6d 42% N/A
14 May 1778 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Irish Widow, Minuet de la Cour, He's Aye Kissing Me, Stand to Your Guns, My Hearts of Oak No No Yes £132 16s 43% N/A
26 Sep 1778 Drury Lane As You Like It, Comus, The Cowkeeper No No No £148 2s 6d 100% N/A
11 Jan 1779 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Wonders of Derbyshire, The Coopers No Yes No £285 5s N/A N/A
24 Sep 1779 Covent Garden As You Like It, Midas, The Dockyard, Dance of Forresters No No No £142 19s 6d 100% N/A
17 Dec 1779 Covent Garden As You Like It, The Two Misers, The Dockyard, Dance of Forresters No No No £111 18s 30% N/A
28 Jan 1780 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Critic, The Sportsman Deceived No No No £173 5s 6d 48% N/A
07 Apr 1780 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Quaker, He's Aye Kissing Me No No Yes £201 12s 47% N/A
02 May 1780 Drury Lane As You Like It, Fortunatus, The Savoyards, Allemande, Minuet No No Yes £163 11s 23% N/A
05 Oct 1780 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Critic or A Tragedy Rehears'd, The Butterfly No No Yes £236 3s 6d N/A N/A
20 Oct 1780 Drury Lane As You Like It, Bon Ton or High Life above Stairs, The Force of Love No No No £90 12s 34% N/A
22 Jan 1782 Covent Garden As You Like It, The Choice of Harlequin, The Double Surprise, Dance of Foresters No No No £194 17s 61% N/A
11 Apr 1782 Drury Lane As You Like It, Robinson Crusoe, The Distress'd Lovers No No No £103 12s 34% N/A
27 Apr 1782 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Quaker, Hornpipe, The Devonshire Minuet No No Yes £225 32% N/A
01 Jun 1782 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Irish Widow, The Distress'd Lovers, The Irish Fair No No Yes £118 9s 100% N/A
28 Sep 1782 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Englishman in Paris No No No £167 19s 6d 100% N/A
17 Oct 1782 Drury Lane As You Like It, Bon Ton, Devonshire Minuet No No No £85 17s 31% N/A
05 Nov 1782 Drury Lane As You Like It, Too Civil by Half, Minuet de la Cour, The Irish Fair No No No £84 17s 33% N/A
17 May 1783 Covent Garden As You Like It, The Quaker, Dance of Foresters, When Phoebus the Tops of the Hills Does Adorn No No Yes £163 12s 100% N/A
16 Oct 1783 Drury Lane As You Like It, High Life below Stairs, The Pastoral Lovers, Cuckow song No No No £97 10s 39% N/A
17 Sep 1784 Covent Garden As You Like It, Cross Purposes, The Belle of the Village No No No Unknown N/A N/A
26 Oct 1784 Drury Lane As You Like It, Bon Ton or High Life above Stairs, The Sportsmen's Return No No No £129 10s N/A N/A
30 Apr 1785 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Humourist, Comic Dance No No Yes £327 9s 3d N/A N/A
07 May 1785 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Humourist, Comic Dance No No No £233 14s N/A N/A
14 May 1785 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Humourist, Comic Dance No No No £241 9s 6d N/A N/A
18 May 1785 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Humourist, Comic Dance No Yes No £295 14s N/A N/A
07 Feb 1786 Covent Garden As You Like It, The Country Wife, The Piping Pedlar No No No £171 3s 37% N/A
18 Feb 1786 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Projects, The Lucky Return No No No £222 8s 6d 50% N/A
07 Jun 1786 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Flitch of Bacon, The Lucky Return No No No £219 16s 6d 100% N/A
13 Apr 1787 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Sultan, La Soiree Provencalle, The Minuet de la Cour No No Yes £304 2s N/A N/A
29 May 1787 Drury Lane As You Like It, The First Floor, La Soiree Provencalle, Cuckoo Song No No No £198 12s 6d 51% N/A
06 Nov 1787 Drury Lane As You Like It, Bon Ton or High Life above Stairs No No No £174 5s 6d 45% N/A
02 Oct 1788 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Lying Valet, The Conjugal Frolick No No No £174 6s 6d 100% N/A
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