The Country Wife (1675)

Author
William Wycherley
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
£946 17s 6d £517 4s 6d (54.6%) £429 13s (45.4%)
1732 - 1809
£946 17s 6d - (100%) £517 4s 6d (54.6%) £429 13s (45.4%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
62 37 25
1732 - 1809
62 37 25
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
07 May 1745 Drury Lane The Country Wife, Tragedy of Tragedies No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
28 Nov 1745 Drury Lane The Country Wife, The Intriguing Chambermaid, Grand Comic Dance No No No £76 13s 6d N/A N/A
13 Feb 1746 Drury Lane The Country Wife, The Stage Coach No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Dec 1746 Drury Lane The Country Wife, The Lottery No No No £40 30% N/A
11 Feb 1747 Covent Garden The Country Wife, Turkish Pirate, Laundress's Visiting Day No No No £91 6d N/A N/A
26 Feb 1747 Covent Garden The Country Wife, Orpheus and Eurydice, Turkish Pirate, Laundress's Visiting Day No No No £162 19s 84% N/A
12 Mar 1747 Covent Garden The Country Wife, Phebe No No No £100 4s 6d 46% N/A
28 Nov 1748 Drury Lane The Country Wife, The Anatomist, L'Entree de Flore, Savoyards, Vertumnus and Pomona No No No £81 12s 6d N/A N/A
07 Dec 1749 Drury Lane The Country Wife, The Chaplet, Comic Dance No No No £63 16s 6d 52% N/A
20 Mar 1753 Covent Garden The Country Wife, Harlequin Sorcerer, Il Pastore No No No Unknown N/A N/A
04 May 1753 Drury Lane The Country Wife, Bayes in Petticoats, Hornpipe, Scots Dance No No Yes £140 N/A N/A
07 Nov 1753 Covent Garden The Country Wife, Harlequin Sorcerer Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
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