The Earl of Essex (1753)

Author
Henry Jones
Author
John Banks
Work Type
Mainpiece
Genre
History
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
£7,267 11s 6d £4,855 4s 6d (66.8%) £2,412 7s (33.2%)
1732 - 1809
£7,267 11s 6d - (100%) £4,855 4s 6d (66.8%) £2,412 7s (33.2%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
106 74 32
1732 - 1809
106 74 32
Notes
Based on John Banks's 1682 play The Unhappy Favourite.
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
14 May 1791 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, The Flitch of Bacon, The Jockies No No Yes £202 19s N/A N/A
31 Oct 1791 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, The Crusade No No No £156 18s 6d 41% N/A
27 Dec 1791 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, Blue Beard No No No £245 8s 57% N/A
24 May 1792 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, The Farmer, Pastoral Dance, Black-Eyed Susan No No Yes £358 5s 6d 35% N/A
31 Dec 1792 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, Harlequin's Museum, Burlesque Pas des Russe, Hornpipe No No No £239 10s 42% N/A
27 May 1795 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, True Blue or The Parting Lovers, Netley Abbey, Hornpipe, Wives and Sweethearts, The Young Widow, Rule Britannia, The Days We Now Possess, The Storm, The Wand'ring Sailor, When Gen'rous Wine, Ye Gentlemen of England No No Yes £287 3s 33% N/A
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