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 %
13 May 1737 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Devil to Pay, Wooden Shoes, Hornpipe, New Scotch Dance, Turkish Dance, Two Pierrots No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
30 Aug 1737 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Devil to Pay No No No £115 100% N/A
02 Nov 1737 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Harlots Progress, Saraband, Comic Dance, Minuet, Serious Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
13 Apr 1738 Drury Lane Love For Love, The King and the Miller of Mansfield, Lilliputian Punch, Drunken Peasant, French Peasants, Tambourine, Turkish Dance Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
26 May 1738 Drury Lane Love For Love, The King and the Miller of Mansfield, Punch, Drunken Peasant, Sailors Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
03 Nov 1738 Drury Lane Love For Love, Robin Goodfellow No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
30 Dec 1738 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Devil to Pay, Double Jealousy, Moors' Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
23 Feb 1739 Drury Lane Love For Love, Robin Goodfellow No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
03 Apr 1739 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Devil to Pay, Punches Dance, Wou'd You Taste the Noontide Air, Comic Dance, Oh Happy Pair, Turkish Dance Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
02 May 1739 Covent Garden Love For Love, Two Pierots, Solo on violin, Je ne scay quoy, Peasant Dance, Serious Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
30 May 1739 Drury Lane Love For Love, The King and the Miller of Mansfield, Pierots, Comic Dance, Saraband, Scaramouches, Tambourine No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
04 Sep 1739 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Devil to Pay No No No Unknown N/A N/A
26 Oct 1739 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Fall of Phaeton Harlequin a Captive, To Arms, Pierots, Britons Strike Home, Scotch Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Nov 1739 Drury Lane Love For Love, Harlequin Grand Volgi, French Peasants, Grand Ballet No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
16 Jan 1740 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Fortune Tellers, Voyage to the Land of Cytherea Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
06 Feb 1740 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Virgin Unmasked No No No Unknown N/A N/A
04 Mar 1740 Drury Lane Love For Love, The King and the Miller of Mansfield, La Provencale, Drunken Peasant No No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Mar 1740 Covent Garden Love For Love, Peasants, Ball Dance, Ballet, Minuet, Pastor Fido, Scots Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
21 Apr 1740 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Lottery, Tambourine, English Captain, La Matelote, Wooden Shoe Dance Yes Yes Yes Unknown N/A N/A
21 May 1740 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Miller of Mansfield, Pierots, Water Music, Le Gout Anglois, Le Tambourine, New Saraband No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
09 Sep 1740 Drury Lane Love For Love, The King and the Miller of Mansfield No No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Dec 1740 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Devil to Pay, Les Jardiniers Suedois, Le Boufon No No No Unknown N/A N/A
16 Jan 1741 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Devil to Pay, Le Boufon, Les Matelotes, Les Sabotiers No Yes Yes Unknown N/A N/A
28 Apr 1741 Drury Lane Love For Love, The King and the Miller of Mansfield, Grand Ballet, Blow Blow, La Tambourin No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
25 May 1741 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Mock Doctor, Scots Dance, Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind, French Peasant, La Tambourine Matelote No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
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