The Comedy of Errors (1623)

Author
William Shakespeare
Author
Thomas Hull (1779)
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
£10,639 6s 6d £10,246 6s 6d (96.3%) £393 (3.7%)
1732 - 1809
£10,639 6s 6d - (100%) £10,246 6s 6d (96.3%) £393 (3.7%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
56 51 5
1732 - 1809
56 51 5
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
23 Mar 1789 Covent Garden The Comedy Of Errors, The Death of Captain Cook, Marian No No No £238 19s 6d 58% N/A
29 May 1789 Covent Garden The Comedy Of Errors, The Feast of Anacreon, The Cheats of Scapin, Tom Thumb No No Yes £182 8s 6d 35% N/A
07 Apr 1790 Covent Garden The Comedy Of Errors, The Englishman in Paris, Tom Thumb, Four and Twenty Fiddlers All on a Row No No Yes £366 8s 69% N/A
01 Jun 1790 Covent Garden The Ladies' Frolick, The Comedy of Errors, The Flitch of Bacon, Crutch Dance, Highland Laddie, Alone by the Light of the Moon No No Yes £216 12s 66% N/A
10 Jun 1790 Covent Garden Nootka Sound, The Comedy of Errors, Harlequin's Chaplet No No Yes £258 13s 100% N/A
31 May 1791 Covent Garden The Midnight Hour, The Comedy of Errors, The Jockies, Black-Eyed Susan No No Yes £186 2s 6d N/A N/A
18 May 1792 Covent Garden The Comedy Of Errors, Three Weeks after Marriage, Comus, Divertisement, The Ups and Downs of Life, Give Me Wine, Rosy Wine, Nor on Beds of Fading Flowers No No Yes £308 14s 6d 35% N/A
15 Apr 1793 Covent Garden The Comedy Of Errors, The Relief of Williamstadt, The Lying Valet, The Bouquet No Yes No £350 4s 6d N/A N/A
03 Jun 1793 Covent Garden The Comedy Of Errors, The Sailor's Festival, Hartford Bridge, The Lucky Escape, Black-Eyed Susan No No Yes £472 4s 6d 50% N/A
05 Jun 1793 Covent Garden The Comedy Of Errors, Tom Thumb, Scotch Divertisement, Black Eyed Susan No Yes No £316 15s 87% N/A
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