The Inconstant; or, The Way to Win Him (1702)

Author
George Farquhar
Author
John Fletcher
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
£16,268 1s 6d £3,029 19s 6d (18.6%) £13,238 2s (81.4%)
1732 - 1809
£16,268 1s 6d - (100%) £3,029 19s 6d (18.6%) £13,238 2s (81.4%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
110 40 70
1732 - 1809
110 40 70
Notes
Closely based on John Fletcher's The Wild Goose Chase.
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
17 Oct 1765 Covent Garden The Inconstant Or The Way To Win Him, Perseus and Andromeda No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Dec 1765 Covent Garden The Inconstant, The Chaplet, The Venetian Gardeners, Rural Love No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
23 Dec 1766 Covent Garden The Inconstant, The Citizen, Hornpipe, The Village Romps Yes No Yes £246 15s 6d 43% N/A
27 May 1768 Covent Garden The Inconstant, The Royal Chace, Minuet, Comic Dance No No Yes £146 12s N/A N/A
22 Dec 1768 Covent Garden The Inconstant, Thomas and Sally, The Provenzales, The Reel No No Yes £247 11s N/A N/A
25 Jan 1769 Covent Garden The Inconstant, Apollo and Daphne, The Irish Lilt No No No £177 15s N/A N/A
05 Oct 1769 Covent Garden The Inconstant, The Dragon of Wantly, The Lamplighters No No No £65 16s N/A N/A
06 Dec 1771 Covent Garden The Inconstant, The Fairy Prince No No No £143 1s 37% N/A
25 Feb 1772 Covent Garden The Inconstant, Mother Shipton Yes No No £164 12s 6d 55% N/A
12 Nov 1772 Covent Garden The Inconstant, Daphne and Amintor, The Merry Sailors, New Occasional Prelude Yes No No £106 19s 43% N/A
25 May 1773 Covent Garden The Inconstant, The Commissary, Hornpipe, Concerto on harpsichord No No Yes £257 1s 6d 63% N/A
18 Dec 1773 Covent Garden The Inconstant, The Commissary, The Old Ground Young No No Yes £216 5s 51% N/A
18 Jan 1774 Covent Garden The Inconstant, The Sylphs, The Fingalian Dance, Double Hornpipe No No No £172 13s 40% N/A
04 Nov 1779 Covent Garden The Inconstant, The Touchstone No No No £92 17s 6d 31% N/A
03 Apr 1780 Drury Lane The Inconstant Or The Way To Win Him, The ChristmasTale No No Yes £192 11s 6d 41% N/A
25 Apr 1780 Drury Lane The Inconstant, The Artifice No No No £48 8s 6d 22% N/A
10 Dec 1787 Covent Garden The Inconstant Or The Way To Win Him, The Farmer No No No £198 3s 6d 58% N/A
14 Dec 1787 Covent Garden The Inconstant, The Farmer, Mirth by Moonshine No No No £155 17s 6d 75% N/A
05 Nov 1789 Drury Lane The Inconstant Or The Way To Win Him, Arthur and Emmeline No No No £110 18s 39% N/A
13 Nov 1789 Drury Lane The Inconstant, The Island of St Marguerite No No No £172 16s 59% N/A
13 Jan 1790 Drury Lane The Inconstant, The Island of St Marguerite No No No £196 17s 32% N/A
27 Jan 1790 Drury Lane The Inconstant, Harlequin's Frolicks No No No £113 7s 28% N/A
20 May 1790 Drury Lane The Inconstant, The Court of Apollo, Comus No No Yes £218 5s 36% N/A
04 Nov 1790 Drury Lane The Inconstant Or The Way To Win Him, No Song No Supper No No No £207 52% N/A
11 Nov 1791 Drury Lane The Inconstant Or The Way To Win Him, The Follies of a Day No No No £169 10s 6d 43% N/A
16 Nov 1791 Drury Lane The Inconstant, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £292 9s 6d N/A N/A
15 Dec 1791 Drury Lane The Inconstant, The Pannel No No No £157 5s 6d 45% N/A
29 Dec 1791 Drury Lane The Inconstant, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £178 13s 6d 44% N/A
29 Sep 1792 Drury Lane The Inconstant Or The Way To Win Him, The Waterman No No No £159 19s 100% N/A
20 Nov 1792 Drury Lane The Inconstant, The Liar No No No £74 6s 6d 24% N/A
06 Dec 1792 Drury Lane The Inconstant, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £112 6s 33% N/A
19 Dec 1792 Drury Lane The Inconstant, The Prisoner No No No £194 2s 29% N/A
29 Apr 1794 Drury Lane The Inconstant Or The Way To Win Him, The Children In The Wood No No No £324 5s 6d 68% N/A
09 Jun 1794 Drury Lane The Inconstant, Lodoiska No No No £318 1s 84% N/A
20 Jan 1795 Drury Lane The Inconstant Or The Way To Win Him, Tit for Tat No No No £117 12s 46% N/A
13 Feb 1795 Drury Lane The Inconstant, Alexander the Great No No No £263 11s 81% N/A
29 Feb 1796 Drury Lane The Inconstant, Harlequin Captive No No No £187 2s 44% N/A
31 Mar 1796 Drury Lane The Inconstant, The Devil to Pay No No No £230 1s 6d 46% N/A
06 Apr 1797 Drury Lane The Inconstant, The Prize No No No £462 3s 59% N/A
07 May 1798 Drury Lane Hannah Hewit Or The Female Crusoe, The Inconstant, The Son in Law, The Sailor's Consolation No No Yes £514 1s 6d 76% N/A
27 Apr 1799 Drury Lane The Inconstant, The Deserter, Military Manoeuvres, The Dear March, and the Ceremony used in Shooting a Deserter No No No £205 3s 56% N/A
18 May 1799 Drury Lane The Inconstant, High Life below Stairs, Mock Minuet No No Yes £122 2s 6d N/A N/A
12 May 1800 Drury Lane The Inconstant Or The Way To Win Him, The Pannel, The Blue Bell of Scotland No No Yes £603 7s 6d 61% N/A
07 Jun 1800 Drury Lane The Inconstant, Rosina, The Soldier Tired of War's Alarms No No Yes £328 9s 6d 70% N/A
09 Jan 1801 Drury Lane The Inconstant, Harlequin Amulet; or, The Magick of Mona No No No £182 13s 33% N/A
21 Jan 1801 Drury Lane The Inconstant, Harlequin Amulet; or, The Magick of Mona No No No £263 18s 35% N/A
05 Feb 1801 Drury Lane The Inconstant, The Veteran Tar No No No £174 15s 6d 44% N/A
24 Mar 1801 Drury Lane The Inconstant, Blue Beard No No No £283 52% N/A
14 Oct 1801 Drury Lane The Inconstant; or, The Way to Win Him, Of Age To-Morrow No No No £94 13s 36% N/A
15 Dec 1801 Drury Lane The Inconstant; or, The Way to Win Him, High Life Below Stairs No No No £130 10s 27% N/A
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