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 %
28 Oct 1732 Drury Lane Love For Love Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
31 Oct 1732 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Contrivances No No No Unknown N/A N/A
02 Nov 1732 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Contrivances, Flute Chacone, Les Bergeries No No No Unknown N/A N/A
06 Nov 1732 Drury Lane Love For Love, Damon and Phillida, Flute Chacone, Les Bergeries, Minuet Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Nov 1732 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Country Revels, Chacone Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
27 Nov 1732 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Country Revels No No No Unknown N/A N/A
29 Dec 1732 Drury Lane Love For Love, Cephalus and Procris No No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Jan 1733 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Contrivances No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
24 Apr 1733 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Lottery, Drunken Peasant, Les Bergeries, The Flight Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
21 May 1733 Drury Lane Love For Love, Venus, Cupid and Hymen, Drunken Peasant, Les Bergeries, The Watteau Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
04 Apr 1734 Drury Lane Love For Love, Pierrots, Quanto Dolce Duanto Care No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
23 May 1734 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Devil to Pay, Pierrots No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
07 Sep 1734 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Black and White Joke, Revellers No No No Unknown N/A N/A
30 Oct 1734 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Burgomaster Trick'd Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Jan 1735 Drury Lane Love For Love, Colombine Courtezan, Grand Polish Ballet, Black Joak, French Peasants, Grand Comic Ballet Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Mar 1735 Drury Lane Love For Love, A Cure for a Scold, Russian Sailor, Amorous Swain and Rival Nymphs No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
20 May 1735 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Devil to Pay, English Maggot, Roast Beef Song, Amorous Swain, Dutchman and his Frow Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
04 Sep 1735 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Devil to Pay or The Wives Metamorphosd No No No Unknown N/A N/A
26 Nov 1735 Drury Lane Love For Love, Harlequin Restord, Grand ballet No No No Unknown N/A N/A
17 Feb 1736 Drury Lane Love For Love, Harlequin Restord, English Maggot, Rover No No No Unknown N/A N/A
03 Apr 1736 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Intriguing Chambermaid, Venetian Gondolier, Les Caracteres de la Dance, Les Rigadoons a la Provencale originale, Minuet Yes Yes Yes Unknown N/A N/A
07 May 1736 Drury Lane Love For Love, The March in Zara, English Maggot, Dutchman and his Frow, Minuet, Peasant No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
30 Oct 1736 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Devil to Pay, English Maggot, Drunken Peasant, Rover No No No Unknown N/A N/A
10 Dec 1736 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Burgomaster Trick'd, Black Joak, English Maggot No No No Unknown N/A N/A
26 Mar 1737 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Intriguing Chambermaid No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
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
05 Sep 1741 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Mock Doctor Yes No No £120 100% N/A
27 Oct 1741 Drury Lane Love For Love, Les Masons et Les Sabotiers, Le Genereux Corsaire Yes No No £70 N/A N/A
06 Nov 1741 Drury Lane Love For Love, Les Masons, Le Genereux Corsaire, Les Sabotiers No Yes No £150 100% N/A
19 Jan 1742 Drury Lane Love For Love, Harlequin Shipwrecked, Happy Pair, Sailors Dance, The Swiss No No No £50 N/A N/A
27 Mar 1742 Covent Garden Love For Love, The Peasants, Chacone, Hornpipe, Rigadone Provencale No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
21 Apr 1742 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Devil to Pay, Let Me Wander Not Unseen, The Italian Peasants, Bumper Squire Jones, Le Boufon, Sweet Bird Yes No Yes £180 N/A N/A
25 May 1742 Drury Lane Love For Love, The King and Miller of Mansfield, Celladon and Phyllis, The Medley of Jokes No No Yes £160 N/A N/A
18 Sep 1742 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Devil to Pay No No No £73 6s 6d 100% N/A
06 Nov 1742 Drury Lane Love For Love, Miss Lucy in Town, Grand Serious Ballet, Concerto, Turkish Seraglio No No No £35 13s N/A N/A
01 Jan 1743 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Devil to Pay, Concerto on violoncello, Concerto No No No £34 14s N/A N/A
11 May 1743 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Intriguing Chambermaid, Tyrolean Dance, Minuet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
17 Sep 1743 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Lying Valet No No No Unknown N/A N/A
14 Nov 1743 Drury Lane Love For Love, The School Boy No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
21 Dec 1743 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Anatomist No No No Unknown N/A N/A
05 May 1744 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Devil to Pay No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
15 Sep 1744 Drury Lane Love For Love No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
08 Jan 1745 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Mock Doctor, Grand Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
29 Jan 1745 Drury Lane Love For Love, Temple of Dulness, New Shepherd's Dance, Grand Dance Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Feb 1745 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Dragon of Wantley No No No Unknown N/A N/A
01 May 1745 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Lying Valet, Early Horn No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
10 Oct 1745 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Tragedy of Tragedies No No No £80 18s 100% N/A
25 Nov 1745 Covent Garden Love For Love, Orpheus and Eurydice No No No Unknown N/A N/A
30 Dec 1745 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Stage Coach No No No £83 6s N/A N/A
16 Jan 1746 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Stage Coach, My Faith and Truth Yes No No £36 19s 6d N/A N/A
20 Feb 1746 Drury Lane Love For Love, Damon and Phillida, Italian Peasants, Grand Dance No No No £46 19s 6d N/A N/A
18 Apr 1746 Covent Garden Love For Love, The Dragon of Wantley, Pigmalion, Peasant No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
27 Oct 1746 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Intriguing Chambermaid No No No Unknown N/A N/A
30 Oct 1746 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Intriguing Chambermaid No No No £60 100% N/A
04 Dec 1746 Drury Lane Love For Love, The German Camp No No No £57 29% N/A
14 May 1747 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Double Disappointment No No Yes £60 N/A N/A
12 Jan 1748 Drury Lane Love For Love, Miss in Her Teens, Tambourine, Dutch Dance, Savoyards Yes No No £169 12s 6d N/A N/A
12 Feb 1748 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Dragon of Wantly, Tambourine, Dutch Dance, Hymen's Temple No No No £110 15s 100% N/A
26 Mar 1748 Covent Garden Love For Love, Apollo and Daphne No No No Unknown N/A N/A
06 May 1748 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Anatomist, Peasant Dance, Comic Dance No No Yes £200 N/A N/A
20 Sep 1748 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Devil to Pay, Savoyards No No No £95 3s 100% N/A
27 Oct 1748 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Anatomist, L'Entree de Flore, Vertumnus and Pomona No No No £66 6s N/A N/A
04 Jan 1749 Drury Lane Love For Love, Lethe No No No £149 6s N/A N/A
04 Feb 1749 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Anatomist, Peasant Dance, Scotch Dance Yes No No £59 6d N/A N/A
20 Sep 1749 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Lying Valet No No No £40 100% N/A
17 Nov 1749 Drury Lane Love For Love, Savoyard Travellers No No No £62 8s 68% N/A
18 Jan 1750 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Chaplet, Savoyard Travellers No No No £76 9s 44% N/A
26 Oct 1750 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Chaplet, New Running Footman's Dance No No No £70 N/A N/A
17 Sep 1751 Drury Lane Love For Love, The King and Miller of Mansfield No No No £80 100% N/A
22 Jan 1753 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Genii No No No £140 N/A N/A
19 Feb 1753 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Genii No No No £160 N/A N/A
16 May 1753 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Double Disappointment, Comic Dance No No Yes £210 N/A N/A
16 Jan 1754 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Chaplet, Hornpipe No No No £160 N/A N/A
18 Jan 1754 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Englishman in Paris, Hornpipe No No No £120 N/A N/A
21 Jan 1754 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Englishman in Paris, Hornpipe No No No £150 N/A N/A
25 Jan 1754 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Englishman in Paris No No No £120 N/A N/A
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