A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1718)

Author
Susanna Centlivre
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
£19,134 15s £5,906 18s (30.9%) £13,227 17s (69.1%)
1732 - 1809
£19,134 15s - (100%) £5,906 18s (30.9%) £13,227 17s (69.1%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
158 65 93
1732 - 1809
158 65 93
Notes
Reduced to 3 acts as AP on 17881128 and performed as AP that season
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
05 Mar 1741 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Les Jardiniers Suedois, La Tambourine, Les Matelotes, Shepherds and Shepherdesses, The Peasants' Triumph No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Apr 1746 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Duke and no Duke, Were Gaily Yet, Les Allemandes No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
27 Dec 1746 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Royal Chace No No No £77 1s 56% N/A
26 Dec 1748 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Emperour of the Moon, The Sailors' Revels No No No £158 11s N/A N/A
27 Dec 1748 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Emperour of the Moon, The Sailors' Revels, the Black Joke No No No £127 14s 6d N/A N/A
27 Mar 1749 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Triumph of Peace No No No £91 16s N/A N/A
05 May 1749 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Miller of Mansfield, Hornpipe No No Yes £100 N/A N/A
28 Dec 1749 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Chaplet, New Comic Dance No No No £75 6s 6d 44% N/A
16 Apr 1750 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, A Duke and no Duke, Hornpipe, Savoyard Travellers No No No £55 7s 6d 39% N/A
31 Dec 1750 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Queen Mab, Comic Dance No No No £150 N/A N/A
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