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 %
14 May 1741 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift, The Mock Doctor, Minuet, Blow, Blow, Ballet, Louvre, Tambourine No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
12 Sep 1741 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift Or The Fool In Fashion, The Devil to Pay No No No £100 100% N/A
01 Dec 1741 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift, Perseus and Andromeda No No No Unknown N/A N/A
26 Feb 1742 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift, Tambourine, Chacone, Rigadone Provencale Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Apr 1742 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift, The King and Miller of Mansfield, Musette, La Marie, Louvre, Minuet, New Comic Dance, Rigadone Provencale No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
28 Sep 1742 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift Or The Fool In Fashion, Concerto, Let Me Wander, Concerto on German flute, Tyrolean Dance, Peasant Dance No No No £79 14s 6d 100% N/A
16 Oct 1742 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift Or The Fool In Fashion, The Necromancer or Harlequin Dr Faustus No No No Unknown N/A N/A
03 Jan 1743 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift, Characters of Dancing, Le Rendezvous Gallant, Peasants No No No Unknown N/A N/A
14 Apr 1743 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift, Dutch Skipper, Grand Ballet, Grand Comic Ballet, Louvre, Minuet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
16 May 1743 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift, The Lying Valet, Bumper Squire Jones, Peasant Dance, The Hussars Dance Yes No Yes £25 11s N/A N/A
04 Jan 1744 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift Or The Fool In Fashion, Old Man Taught Wisdom No No No Unknown N/A N/A
07 May 1744 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift, The Virgin Unmasked No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
02 Nov 1744 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift Or The Fool In Fashion, The Fortune Tellers No No No Unknown N/A N/A
07 Jan 1745 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift Or The Fool In Fashion, Orpheus and Eurydice No No No Unknown N/A N/A
14 Feb 1745 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift, Rosamond, Shepherds Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
27 Apr 1745 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift, The Virgin Unmasked, Go Rose My Chloe's Bosom Grace, Comic Dance, War He Sung is Toil and Trouble Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
09 Oct 1745 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift Or The Fool In Fashion, The Virgin Unmasked No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Nov 1745 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift, The Royal Chace No No No Unknown N/A N/A
11 Dec 1745 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift Or The Fool In Fashion, The Virgin Unmasked No No No £38 4s N/A N/A
24 Apr 1746 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift, Phebe No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
29 Dec 1746 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift Or The Fool In Fashion, The Turkish Pirate or a descent on the Grecian Coast, The Laundress's Visiting Day No No No £110 50% N/A
31 Jan 1747 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift Or The Fool In Fashion, Miss in Her Teens No No No £187 14s 6d 79% N/A
15 May 1747 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift, Phebe No No Yes £151 7s N/A N/A
02 Jan 1748 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift Or The Fool In Fashion, Damon and Phillida No No No Unknown N/A N/A
02 Feb 1748 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift, Tea, Foote's Vagaries No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
21 Apr 1749 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift Or The Fool In Fashion, The Devil to Pay, Comic dance, Louvre, Minuet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
09 Dec 1749 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift Or The Fool In Fashion, The Chaplet, The German Jew, or the Pedlars No No No £112 4s 6d 48% N/A
14 Dec 1749 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift, The Chaplet, Savoyard Dance No No No £49 5s 6d 32% N/A
26 Jan 1750 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift, A Duke and no Duke, Swedish Gardeners, Savoyard Travellers No No No £67 8s 48% N/A
13 Sep 1750 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift Or The Fool In Fashion, The Devil to Pay No No No £120 100% N/A
16 Jan 1751 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift, Queen Mab No No No £160 N/A N/A
19 Jan 1751 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift, Queen Mab No No No £160 N/A N/A
15 Feb 1751 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift, Queen Mab No No No £110 N/A N/A
10 May 1751 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift, The Virgin Unmasked, Hornpipe No No Yes £160 N/A N/A
13 Sep 1751 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift Or The Fool In Fashion, The Lying Valet No No No £80 100% N/A
30 Dec 1751 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift, Harlequin Ranger No No No £160 N/A N/A
02 Mar 1752 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift, Queen Mab No No No £50 N/A N/A
30 Apr 1752 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift, The Lying Valet, Hornpipe No No Yes £170 N/A N/A
18 Dec 1752 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift, The King and Miller of Mansfield, L'Entree de Flore No No No £160 N/A N/A
21 Dec 1752 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift, The Double Disappointment, The Italian Gardeners, The Hungarian Peasants No No No £150 N/A N/A
22 Dec 1752 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift, The King and Miller of Mansfield, The Italian Gardeners, Le Matelot Basque No No No £130 N/A N/A
01 Jan 1753 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift, The Genii No No No £200 N/A N/A
12 Jan 1753 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift, The Genii Yes No No £200 N/A N/A
23 Mar 1754 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift, The London Prentice No No Yes £240 N/A N/A
29 Oct 1754 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift Or The Fool In Fashion, The Virgin Unmasked No No No Unknown N/A N/A
05 May 1756 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift, Lethe, The Louvre, Hooly and Fairly, Minuet Yes No Yes £220 N/A N/A
14 Feb 1763 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift Or The Fool In Fashion, The Apprentice, The Dutch Skippers No No No Unknown N/A N/A
19 Feb 1763 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift, The Apprentice, The Jealous Woodcutter No No No Unknown N/A N/A
26 Mar 1763 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift, The Old Maid, The Jovial Gardeners, Minuet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
08 Apr 1763 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift, The Dragon of Wantly, Hornpipe, La Provenciale Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
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