Love for Love (1695)

Author
William Congreve
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
£24,016 15s £2,209 15s 6d (9.2%) £21,806 19s 6d (90.8%)
1732 - 1809
£24,016 15s - (100%) £2,209 15s 6d (9.2%) £21,806 19s 6d (90.8%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
258 49 209
1732 - 1809
258 49 209
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
15 Feb 1754 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Knights No No No £140 N/A N/A
13 May 1754 Covent Garden Love For Love, The Double Disappointment, No Never, Dutch Dance, If Love's a Sweet Passion No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
14 May 1754 Drury Lane Love For Love, The London Prentice, The Pierrots Dance No No Yes £130 N/A N/A
15 Jan 1755 Drury Lane Love For Love, Proteus No No No £140 N/A N/A
08 Feb 1755 Covent Garden Love For Love, Orpheus and Eurydice, Hornpipe No No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Feb 1755 Covent Garden Love For Love, Orpheus and Eurydice No No No Unknown N/A N/A
24 Apr 1755 Covent Garden Love For Love, The Dragon of Wantley, Hornpipe, Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
15 May 1755 Drury Lane Love For Love, Tom Thumb, The Drunken Peasants, The Running Footmen No No Yes £200 N/A N/A
10 Oct 1755 Covent Garden Love For Love No No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Nov 1755 Covent Garden Love For Love, The Contrivances No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
01 Dec 1755 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Genii No No No £70 N/A N/A
02 Jan 1756 Covent Garden Love For Love, The Devil to Pay No No No Unknown N/A N/A
27 Feb 1756 Covent Garden Love For Love, The Englishman Returnd from Paris No No No Unknown N/A N/A
04 May 1756 Covent Garden Love For Love, Duke and no Duke, Les Paisans Gallants No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
24 May 1756 Drury Lane Love For Love, Lethe, The New Comic Dance, The Indian Peasants No No Yes £89 N/A N/A
21 Oct 1756 Covent Garden Love For Love, Harlequin Skeleton No No No Unknown N/A N/A
19 Nov 1756 Covent Garden Love For Love, The Devil to Pay No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Jan 1757 Covent Garden Love For Love, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 May 1757 Covent Garden Love For Love, The Devil to Pay No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
12 Oct 1757 Covent Garden Love For Love, Merlin's Cave or The Royal Chase No No No £42 6s 6d 25% N/A
19 Dec 1757 Covent Garden Love For Love, The Englishman Returned from Paris, Fingalian Dance No No Yes £137 6d 28% N/A
09 May 1758 Covent Garden Love For Love, The Contrivances, Comic Dance No No Yes £179 11s N/A N/A
13 Oct 1758 Covent Garden Love For Love, Harlequin Skeleton No No No £65 6d 30% N/A
27 Nov 1758 Covent Garden Love For Love, Flora or Hob in the Well, Fingalian Dance, The Threshers No No Yes £71 1s N/A N/A
23 May 1759 Covent Garden Love For Love, The Cobler of Preston, Fingalian Dance, The Threshers No No Yes £185 12s 6d N/A N/A
18 Dec 1759 Covent Garden Love For Love, The Devil to Pay, The Dutch Skipper, Fingalian Dance No No Yes £178 10s 6d N/A N/A
09 Apr 1760 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Guardian, Minuet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
18 Apr 1760 Drury Lane Love For Love, Love a la Mode No No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 May 1760 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Englishman in Paris No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
14 Oct 1760 Covent Garden Love For Love, The Englishman Returned from Paris, The Cossacks No No No £36 9s 6d N/A N/A
20 Dec 1760 Covent Garden Love For Love, The Knights, Les Charboniers, New Rural Dance No No Yes £123 3s N/A N/A
26 Oct 1761 Covent Garden Love For Love, The Fair No No No £86 18s N/A N/A
07 Jan 1762 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Genii No No No Unknown N/A N/A
03 May 1762 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Musical Lady, The Tambourine Dance, Hornpipe, The Camp Alarmed, The Italian Gardiners Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
21 May 1762 Covent Garden Love For Love, The Contrivances, The Pleasures of Spring, The Taylors No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
12 Nov 1762 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Genii, The Bavarian Shoemakers No No No Unknown N/A N/A
16 May 1763 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Beggar's Wedding, The Irish Lilt No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
01 Oct 1763 Drury Lane Love For Love, Fortunatus No No No £187 16s 6d 100% N/A
06 Oct 1763 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Genii No No No £188 15s 100% N/A
03 Nov 1763 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Witches No No No £159 17s 6d N/A N/A
11 Nov 1763 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Deuce Is in Him, The Provancalle Yes No No £118 14s 6d N/A N/A
17 Jan 1764 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Rites of Hecate No No No £132 15s N/A N/A
09 Feb 1764 Covent Garden Love For Love, Perseus and Andromeda and the Arcadian Nuptials No No No Unknown N/A N/A
03 Oct 1764 Covent Garden Love For Love, The Englishman in Paris, Blind Mans Buff No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Oct 1764 Drury Lane Love For Love, Fortunatus, New Tambourine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Nov 1764 Covent Garden Love For Love, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
27 Dec 1764 Drury Lane Love For Love, Queen Mab, The Medley No No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Jan 1765 Covent Garden Love For Love, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
17 May 1765 Covent Garden Love For Love, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
19 Nov 1765 Covent Garden Love For Love, The Royal Chace No No No Unknown N/A N/A
06 Dec 1766 Covent Garden Love For Love, Harlequin Dr Faustus No No No £175 8s 60% N/A
05 Mar 1767 Covent Garden Love For Love, Midas No No No £210 18s 49% N/A
23 Dec 1769 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Jubilee No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Jan 1770 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Jubilee No No No Unknown N/A N/A
26 Feb 1770 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Jubilee No No No Unknown N/A N/A
14 May 1770 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Brave Irishman, The Paraphrase of Shakespeares Seven Ages of Man, Minuet, Allemande No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
05 Jun 1770 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Jubilee Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
15 Nov 1770 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Jubilee No No No Unknown N/A N/A
14 Nov 1771 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Institution of the Garter No No No £133 11s 36% N/A
06 May 1773 Covent Garden Love For Love, Harlequin Sorcerer, Sweet is the Breath of Morn, The Whim No No Yes £269 13s 6d 67% N/A
05 Apr 1774 Covent Garden Love For Love, The Country Madcap, The Old Ground Young No No Yes £216 16s 6d 61% N/A
06 May 1774 Covent Garden Love For Love, The Dragon of Wantly, The Frolick No No Yes £198 13s 6d 18% N/A
09 May 1775 Covent Garden Love For Love, St Patrick's Day, Hippisley's Drunken Man, The Humours of Blackwall Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
27 Apr 1776 Covent Garden Love For Love, The Irish Widow, The Merry Sailors No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
15 Nov 1776 Covent Garden Love For Love, The Seraglio No No No £153 8s 61% N/A
29 Nov 1776 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Elopement No No No £150 6d 58% N/A
03 Dec 1776 Drury Lane Love For Love, A Christmas Tale No No No £181 17s 62% N/A
05 Dec 1776 Drury Lane Love For Love, Selima and Azor No No No £218 7s 69% N/A
09 Dec 1776 Drury Lane Love For Love, Selima and Azor No No No £181 16s 6d 48% N/A
14 Jan 1777 Drury Lane Love For Love, Harlequin's Invasion No No No £233 13s 46% N/A
27 Jan 1777 Drury Lane Love For Love, Selima and Azor, The Triumph of Love No No No £153 19s 6d 44% N/A
06 Feb 1777 Drury Lane Love For Love, Selima and Azor No No No £186 44% N/A
22 Mar 1777 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Milesian, The Double Festival No No No £218 8s 55% N/A
03 Apr 1777 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Milesian, The Court Minuet, Allemande No No Yes £212 18s 6d 38% N/A
05 Mar 1778 Drury Lane Love For Love, Queen Mab, Rural Grace No No No £192 8s 62% N/A
06 Apr 1778 Drury Lane Love For Love, Selima and Azor No No Yes £245 7s 6d 43% N/A
13 Oct 1778 Drury Lane Love For Love, Selima and Azor, The Force of Love No No No £219 16s 6d 100% N/A
07 Nov 1778 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Camp No No No £187 3s 6d N/A N/A
21 Nov 1778 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Camp No No No £172 4s 6d N/A N/A
02 Jan 1779 Drury Lane Love For Love, Bon Ton or High Life above Stairs No No No £139 15s 6d N/A N/A
09 Mar 1779 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Wonders of Derbyshire No No No £117 16s N/A N/A
12 Oct 1779 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Padlock No No No £189 6s 100% N/A
05 Jan 1780 Drury Lane Love For Love, Fortunatus No No No £189 5s 6d 51% N/A
14 Mar 1780 Drury Lane Love For Love, Fortunatus No No Yes £173 13s 6d 43% N/A
07 Dec 1780 Drury Lane Love For Love, Fortunatus No No No £172 1s 100% N/A
12 Jan 1781 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Critic No No No £119 19s 35% N/A
06 Nov 1781 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Gentle Shepherd No No No £174 14s 6d N/A N/A
05 May 1783 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Rival Candidates, The Butterfly No No Yes £111 12s 6d 20% N/A
28 Nov 1783 Drury Lane Love For Love, Fortunatus No No No £96 2s 6d 43% N/A
20 Mar 1784 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Double Disguise, The Jovial Sailors No No No £123 16s 32% N/A
24 May 1784 Drury Lane Love For Love, All the Worlds a Stage, The Merry Roundelay No No Yes £210 3s 6d 19% N/A
28 Jan 1786 Covent Garden Love For Love, Omai No No No £200 11s 43% N/A
15 Nov 1786 Covent Garden Love For Love, Rosina, The Piping Pedlar No No No £169 13s 51% N/A
11 Dec 1786 Drury Lane Love For Love, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £229 15s 57% N/A
18 Dec 1786 Drury Lane Love For Love, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £225 1s 6d 66% N/A
21 Dec 1786 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Jubilee No No No £224 12s 6d 65% N/A
28 Dec 1786 Covent Garden Love For Love, The Enchanted Castle No No No £234 6s 6d 60% N/A
05 Jan 1787 Covent Garden Love For Love, The Enchanted Castle No No No £163 5s 41% N/A
06 Feb 1787 Drury Lane Love For Love, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £209 8s 6d 67% N/A
09 Feb 1787 Drury Lane Love For Love, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £161 15s 56% N/A
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