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 %
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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