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 %
27 Nov 1752 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Queen Mab, The Hungarian Peasants, Comic Dance No No No £100 N/A N/A
02 Feb 1753 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Genii No No No £120 N/A N/A
02 May 1757 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Tamer Tamed, Comic Dance, Hornpipe, New Comic Dance No No Yes £160 N/A N/A
07 May 1757 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Lying Valet, Sing All Ye Muses, Hornpipe, New Comic Dances Yes No Yes £130 N/A N/A
03 Apr 1758 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Country House, Sicilian Peasants, Hippisley's Drunken Man, Fingalian Dance, The Cries of London No No Yes £324 9s 6d N/A N/A
06 Apr 1758 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No £73 9s 6d 40% N/A
15 Apr 1758 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No £72 13s 6d 42% N/A
18 Apr 1758 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Harlequin Sorcerer, New Comic Dance No No No £66 4s 6d 23% N/A
15 May 1758 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No £60 8s N/A N/A
18 Nov 1758 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Harlequin Skeleton No No No £67 8s 6d 35% N/A
01 Dec 1758 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Lottery, The Threshers No No No £31 13s 6d 26% N/A
27 Dec 1758 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No £124 5s 50% N/A
14 Dec 1759 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Fair No No No £138 9s 50% N/A
19 May 1760 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Contrivances, Comic Dance No No Yes £260 14s N/A N/A
06 Jan 1761 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Lethe, Scaramouche, Les Charboniers No No Yes £147 1s N/A N/A
17 Apr 1761 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Queen Mab Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
20 May 1761 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Double Disappointment No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
14 Oct 1761 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Fair No No No £123 9s N/A N/A
29 Oct 1761 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Coronation, Queen Mab No No No Unknown N/A N/A
13 Nov 1761 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Harlequin's Invasion, The Coronation No No No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Jan 1762 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Genii No No No Unknown N/A N/A
11 Feb 1762 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Apollo and Daphne No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
20 May 1762 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Mock Doctor, The Pleasures of Spring, Les Charboniers No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
21 May 1762 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Englishman in Paris, Hearts of Oak No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
27 Dec 1762 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Witches, The Irish Lilt No No No Unknown N/A N/A
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