The Earl of Essex (1753) (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
£10,211 13s £8,181 13s (80.1%) £2,030 (19.9%)
1732 - 1809
£10,211 13s - (100%) £8,181 13s (80.1%) £2,030 (19.9%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
97 84 13
1732 - 1809
97 84 13
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 %
11 Nov 1758 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, A Duke and no Duke, The Fingalian Dance No No No £41 2s 22% N/A
21 Dec 1758 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, The Contrivances, The Fingalian Dance No No Yes £74 12s 6d 20% N/A
01 Jan 1759 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No £123 14s 6d 49% N/A
01 Mar 1759 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, The Rape of Proserpine With the Birth and Adventures of Harlequin No No No £259 14s 58% N/A
20 Apr 1759 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, The Lady's Choice, The Feast of Bacchus No No Yes £58 8s 6d N/A N/A
21 Dec 1759 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, The Englishman Returned from Paris, The Dutch Skipper, Fingalian Dance No No Yes £198 6s 27% N/A
01 Jan 1760 Drury Lane The Earl Of Essex, Harlequin's Invasion No No No £180 61% N/A
01 Jan 1760 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, The Fair No No No £115 3s 39% N/A
12 Apr 1760 Drury Lane The Earl Of Essex, Love a la Mode No No No Unknown N/A N/A
19 Apr 1760 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, The Miller of Mansfield, The Lamp Lighters, Equilibres on the Wire No No Yes £103 4s 6d N/A N/A
15 Oct 1760 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, Harlequin Skeleton, The Pedlar Tricked No No No £79 19s N/A N/A
22 Oct 1760 Covent Garden Earl Of Essex, The Rape of Proserpine No No No £141 6d N/A N/A
29 Dec 1760 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, The Rape of Proserpine No No No £166 4s N/A N/A
27 Oct 1761 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, The Fair No No No £80 3s 6d N/A N/A
30 Nov 1762 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
27 Dec 1763 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
14 Jan 1764 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, Perseus and Andromeda or the Cheats of Harlequin No No No Unknown N/A N/A
10 Dec 1765 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, The Royal Chace No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Nov 1766 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, Harlequin Dr Faustus No No No £191 7s 60% N/A
24 Apr 1770 Covent Garden The Unhappy Favorite Or The Earl Of Essex, The Cheats of Scapin, The Wapping Landlady, Double Hornpipe No No Yes £160 16s N/A N/A
10 Oct 1770 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, Midas, Comic Dance, The Countryman Metamorphosed Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Nov 1770 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, True Blue or The Press Gang, Harlequin Skeleton No No No Unknown N/A N/A
07 Oct 1771 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, Midas Yes No No £211 19s 100% N/A
17 Oct 1771 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, Mother Shipton Yes No No £107 12s 31% N/A
13 Nov 1771 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, The Fairy Prince No No No £230 19s 6d 48% N/A
08 Nov 1773 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, Midas No No No £175 15s 6d 41% N/A
16 Dec 1773 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, Achilles in Petticoats No No No £149 18s 6d 52% N/A
26 Dec 1774 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, The Druids With Additions Alterations No No No Unknown N/A N/A
17 Apr 1782 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex Or The Unhappy Favourite, The Country Mad Cap, The Poney Races, The Gala No No Yes £175 3s 6d 56% N/A
31 Dec 1790 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex Or The Unhappy Favourite, The Picture of Paris No No No £233 19s 6d 52% N/A
06 Jan 1791 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, The Picture of Paris No No No £189 8s 6d 51% N/A
13 Jan 1791 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, The Picture of Paris No No No £266 7s 6d N/A N/A
24 Jan 1791 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, The Picture of Paris No No No £261 3s 50% N/A
31 Jan 1791 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, The Picture of Paris No No No £215 16s 48% N/A
25 Feb 1791 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, The Picture of Paris No No No £176 12s 6d 55% N/A
11 Apr 1791 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, High Life below Stairs, The Wapping Landlady No No Yes £306 12s 48% N/A
14 May 1791 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, The Flitch of Bacon, The Jockies No No Yes £202 19s N/A N/A
03 Oct 1791 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex Or The Unhappy Favourite, The Crusade No No No £187 13s 43% 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
24 Sep 1792 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex Or The Unhappy Favorite, The Poor Soldier No No No £249 17s 100% 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
30 Dec 1793 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex Or The Unhappy Favorite, Harlequin And Faustus No No No £370 19s 100% 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
23 Dec 1799 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex Or The Unhappy Favorite, The Volcano or The Rival Harlequins No No No £366 7s 47% N/A
19 May 1801 Covent Garden The Earl of Essex; or, The Unhappy Favourite, The Follies of a Day, The Soldier's Festival; or, A Night before the Battle No No Yes £311 18s 6d 37% N/A
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