Richard III (1592)

Author
William Shakespeare
Author
Colley Cibber (1699)
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
£65,845 10s 6d £36,571 13s 11d (55.5%) £29,273 16s 7d (44.5%)
1732 - 1809
£65,845 10s 6d - (100%) £36,571 13s 11d (55.5%) £29,273 16s 7d (44.5%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
476 252 224
1732 - 1809
476 252 224
Notes
1592-94
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
10 Feb 1757 Covent Garden King Richard III, The Frenchified Lady Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
05 Mar 1757 Drury Lane King Richard III, The Author No No No £160 N/A N/A
09 May 1757 Drury Lane King Richard III, The Toyshop, Comic Dance No No Yes £180 N/A N/A
13 Sep 1757 Drury Lane King Richard III, The Lying Valet No No No £90 100% N/A
28 Oct 1757 Drury Lane King Richard III, The Italian Peasants No No No £210 72% N/A
11 Nov 1757 Covent Garden King Richard III, The Contrivances No No No £111 18s 6d 50% N/A
13 Mar 1758 Covent Garden King Richard III, The Sheep Shearing or Florizel and Perdita, The Italian Peasants, The Judgment of Paris No No Yes £296 17s 6d N/A N/A
12 Oct 1758 Drury Lane King Richard III, The Intriguing Chambermaid, The Millers No No No £154 12s 100% N/A
27 Feb 1759 Drury Lane King Richard III, The Guardian No No No £191 9s 6d 66% N/A
08 Mar 1759 Drury Lane Richard the 3rd No Yes No £200 4s 6d 44% N/A
11 May 1759 Covent Garden King Richard III, The Devil to Pay, The Milkmaid's Holiday No No Yes £231 2s N/A N/A
19 Oct 1759 Drury Lane King Richard III, The Lying Valet No No No £200 58% N/A
01 May 1760 Drury Lane King Richard III, The Englishman in Paris, The Cow Keepers No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
22 May 1760 Drury Lane King Richard III, High Life Below Stairs No No No Unknown N/A N/A
31 May 1760 Drury Lane King Richard III, The Cow Keepers No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Oct 1760 Drury Lane King Richard III, A Duke and no Duke, The Cow Keepers No No No Unknown N/A N/A
13 Oct 1760 Drury Lane King Richard III, Harlequin's Invasion No No No Unknown N/A N/A
19 Nov 1760 Drury Lane King Richard III, Harlequin's Invasion No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Nov 1760 Drury Lane King Richard III No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
30 Mar 1761 Covent Garden King Richard III, The English Tars in America or The Good Woman Without a Head, Comic Dance No No Yes £257 11s 6d N/A N/A
21 Apr 1761 Drury Lane King Richard III, High Life below Stairs, The May Day Morning (Fingalian Dance) Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
05 May 1761 Covent Garden King Richard III, Flora, Comic Dance No No Yes £234 18s 6d N/A N/A
21 May 1761 Covent Garden King Richard III, The Rape of Proserpine No No No £41 9s N/A N/A
29 May 1761 Drury Lane King Richard III, High Life below Stairs No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
26 Sep 1761 Drury Lane King Richard III, Polly Honeycombe, New Dutch Comic Dance, The Camp Alarmed No No No Unknown N/A N/A
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