Folger presentation

FOLGER FINANCIAL ACCOUNT BOOKS

Folger has the Drury Lane sequence

BL has the Covent Garden sequence

Covent Garden series:BL Egerton. 2,273-2,319.

(duplicated at BL Add. MSS. 29,631- 29,642).

July 1767 to March 1822.

FOLGER HAS:Covent Garden: 1714-17,

1720-24, 1728-33, 1740-41, 1759-60, 1793-4.

Drury Lane: 1747-1814 (and up?) (minus some years in

1760s)

POSSIBLE SEARCH FIELDS1) Actor/actress names (date, play, their benefit nights)2) Plays (title; author; dates of perfs; when used as benefit nights)3) New writing first nights4) Nights when royalty present5) Nightly box office income (date, play)6) Benefit night earnings per actor (ie. subtract house charge/note ‘deficiency’)7) Properties expenditure (painters, carpenters, clothes etc)8) Running costs (cleaning, heating, dressers, all recurrent costs)9) Taxes paid (eg window, parish rates)10) Author income (the 2 types)SPECIALIST11) Prompter comments (Garrick era only)12) Box book names (post 1809 rebuild)13 ) Rehearsal schedules (post 1809 rebuild)ANALYTICAL: analyse popularities of plays; actor/actress income; analyse benefit night income success; graph of house income/expend; graph of new writing.CORRELATE ALL OF ABOVE WITH COVENT GARDEN!COVENT GARDEN GIVES WEEKLY SALARY RATES, PER EMPLOYEE.