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 %
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
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