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
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