The Tempest (1623)

Author
William Shakespeare
Author
Sir William Davenant (1667)
Author
John Dryden (1667)
Author
Thomas Shadwell (1674)
Author
David Garrick (1756)
Author
John Philip Kemble (1789)
Author
J. C. Foote (1756)
Composer
Thomas Linley Junior (1777)
Composer
John Christopher Smith (1756)
Work Type
Mainpiece
Genre
Tragicomedy
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
£34,834 15s 8d £10,416 11s 8d (29.9%) £24,418 4s (70.1%)
1732 - 1809
£34,834 15s 8d - (100%) £10,416 11s 8d (29.9%) £24,418 4s (70.1%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
242 35 207
1732 - 1809
242 35 207
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
07 May 1793 Drury Lane The Tempest, Fortune's Wheel, Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite, The Little Farthing Rushlight No No Yes £227 8s N/A N/A
22 Feb 1797 Drury Lane The Tempest Or The Enchanted Island, My Grandmother, The Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite No No No £212 2s 6d 44% N/A
28 Feb 1797 Drury Lane The Tempest, Lodoiska, Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite No No No £180 3s 6d 46% N/A
18 Mar 1797 Drury Lane The Tempest, Lodoiska, The Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite No No No £181 4s 6d 34% N/A
09 Dec 1797 Drury Lane The Tempest Or The Enchanted Island, Who's the Dupe, The Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite No No No £142 7s 6d 40% N/A
23 Dec 1797 Drury Lane The Tempest, Sylvester Daggerwood, The Follies of a Day, Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite No No No £154 3s 59% N/A
24 Feb 1798 Drury Lane The Tempest, Blue Beard, The Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite No No No £278 13s 54% N/A
05 Jun 1798 Drury Lane The Tempest, Sylvester Daggerwood, The Eleventh of June or The Daggerwoods at Dunstable, Blue Beard, Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite No No Yes £320 6s 6d 89% N/A
04 May 1799 Drury Lane The Tempest Or The Enchanted Island, Bon Ton, Jerry Sneak in His Glory, Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite, As Burns the Charger, At The Peaceful Midnight Hour, The Town Crier No No Yes £390 8s 6d 45% N/A
14 Nov 1799 Drury Lane The Tempest, The Humourist, Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite No No No £186 7s 39% N/A
28 Nov 1799 Drury Lane The Tempest, The Mock Doctor, Solemn Dirge, A Bundle of Proverbs, An Hungry Fox One Day Did Spy, Black Ey'd Susan, Britons, Your Country's Gratitude Behold, In Praise of the Tars Who Have Leathered the World, Sir Sidney Smith, The Embarkation, The Navy and Army of Britain Forever, We Come, Ye Guardians of Our Isle, When a Tar Returns Home, When Britain First Her Flag Upreared, When Peace Smiles Around No No No £176 10s 45% N/A
03 Jun 1801 Drury Lane Tempest, Shipwreck No No Yes £361 13s 6d 58% N/A
02 Nov 1801 Drury Lane The Tempest, The Liar No No No £126 16s 6d 31% N/A
26 Dec 1801 Drury Lane The Tempest, Harlequin-Amulet No No No £326 10s 6d 51% N/A
08 Dec 1806 Covent Garden The Tempest, All the World's a Stage No No No £396 9s 6d 59% N/A
10 Dec 1806 Covent Garden The Tempest, Lock & Key No No No £255 45% N/A
12 Dec 1806 Covent Garden Tempest, Arbitration No No No £289 5s 6d 65% N/A
15 Dec 1806 Covent Garden The Tempest, Arbitration No No No £358 1s 59% N/A
17 Dec 1806 Covent Garden The Tempest, Arbitration No No No £248 11s 2d 47% N/A
19 Dec 1806 Covent Garden The Tempest, Arbitration No No No £253 16s 6d 50% N/A
23 Dec 1806 Covent Garden Tempest, Arbitration No No No £209 12s 56% N/A
27 Dec 1806 Covent Garden The Tempest, Tom Thumb No No No £274 2s 6d 44% N/A
31 Dec 1806 Covent Garden Tempest, Mother Goose No No No £409 5s 63% N/A
02 Jan 1807 Covent Garden Tempest, Mother Goose No No No £345 11s 68% N/A
07 Jan 1807 Covent Garden Tempest, Mother Goose No No No £396 11s 6d 62% N/A
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