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
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