Love's Last Shift; or, The Fool in Fashion (1696)

Author
Colley Cibber
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
£5,168 15s £2,054 7s 6d (39.7%) £3,114 7s 6d (60.3%)
1732 - 1809
£5,168 15s - (100%) £2,054 7s 6d (39.7%) £3,114 7s 6d (60.3%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
118 69 49
1732 - 1809
118 69 49
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
16 May 1737 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift, The Lottery, Hornpipe, The Lady's Lamentation, Water Music, Fingalian, Grecian Sailors, Two Pierrots No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
06 Sep 1737 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift Or The Fool In Fashion, The Devil to Pay No No No £62 100% N/A
17 Oct 1737 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift, The Necromancer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
04 Jan 1738 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift, The Dragon of Wantley No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Mar 1738 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift, The King and the Miller of Mansfield, Grand Ballet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
08 May 1738 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift, The Mock Lawyer, Serious Dance, Comic Dance, New Pantomime Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
15 May 1738 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift, The Intriguing Chambermaid, Drunken Peasant, Sweet Echo, Dove Spiega, Flanderkins No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
04 Oct 1738 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift Or The Fool In Fashion, The Necromancer or Harlequin Doctor Faustus No No No Unknown N/A N/A
11 Dec 1738 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift, The Cheats of Scapin, Comic Dance, Scots Dance Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
22 Jan 1739 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift, The Devil to Pay No No No Unknown N/A N/A
06 Feb 1739 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift, Perseus and Andromeda No No No Unknown N/A N/A
03 Apr 1739 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift, The Stage Coach, Two Pierots, Grand Ballet Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
12 Apr 1739 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift, The Lottery, Moors' Dance, The Noontide Air, Grand Ballet, Punches Dance No Yes Yes Unknown N/A N/A
23 May 1739 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift, The Stage Coach, Serious Dance, In Praise of the Roast Beef of Old England, Harlequin Woman, Je ne scai quoy, Pierrots No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
20 Sep 1739 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift Or The Fool In Fashion, Harlequin Shipwreckd, La Provencale, Tambourine No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
08 Oct 1739 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift, Apollo and Daphne No No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Nov 1739 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift, The Honest Yorkshireman, Faithful Lovers, Kilkenny, Le Badinage de Province Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
11 Jan 1740 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift, Margery, Muzette, French Peasants, Tambourine, Wooden Shoe Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
04 Feb 1740 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift, The Fortune Tellers, La Matelote, Le Tambourine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
24 Apr 1740 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift, The Devil to Pay, Tambourine, English Captain No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
05 May 1740 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift, The Miller of Mansfield, La Provencale, Pierots, Wooden Shoes No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
22 Oct 1740 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift Or The Fool In Fashion, The Necromancer or Harlequin Doctor Faustus No No No £47 3s N/A N/A
14 Nov 1740 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift, The Virgin Unmasked, Peasant Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Dec 1740 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift, Nancy, Le Bergeres Fidelle, Comic Ballet, Yorkshire Maggot No No Yes £91 6s 6d N/A N/A
22 Apr 1741 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift, The Sham Conjurer, Minuet, Peasants de Bordeaux, Two Pierots No No Yes £160 N/A N/A
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