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
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