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 %
19 Sep 1780 Drury Lane The Election, A Bold Stroke for a Wife, Fortunatus, Minuet de la Cour No No No £131 16s 6d 100% N/A
25 Nov 1780 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Camp No No No £71 6s 6d 26% N/A
25 May 1781 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Rival Candidates, Hornpipe No No Yes £269 14s 66% N/A
19 Jan 1782 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Lun's Ghost, Minuet de la Cour No No No £150 42% N/A
23 Feb 1782 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Gentle Shepherd, The Distress'd Lovers No No No £118 7s 6d N/A N/A
07 Dec 1782 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Irish Widow, The Irish Fair, The Devonshire Minuet No No No £86 6d 27% N/A
27 Jan 1783 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Triumph of Mirth, Minuet de la Cour No No No £133 12s 6d 40% N/A
13 Nov 1783 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Fortunatus, The Pastoral Lovers No No No £116 3s 6d 29% N/A
26 Dec 1783 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Fortunatus, New Comic Ballet No No No £131 9s 6d 34% N/A
28 Dec 1784 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Arthur and Emmeline, The Sportsmen's Return No No No £123 12s N/A N/A
25 May 1785 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Waterman, The Slave in Chains, Bright Phoebus has Mounted the Chariot of Day No No Yes £246 1s N/A N/A
25 Oct 1786 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £178 6s 6d 42% N/A
22 Dec 1786 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Jubilee No No No £163 16s 6d N/A N/A
02 Jan 1787 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Enchanted Castle No No No £210 18s 6d 50% N/A
31 May 1787 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Poor Soldier No No Yes £323 16s 6d 49% N/A
19 Sep 1787 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Deserter No No No £142 4s 100% N/A
29 Dec 1787 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Dumb Cake No No No £185 2s 46% N/A
04 Jun 1788 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Deserter No No Yes £189 10s 38% N/A
28 Nov 1788 Covent Garden The Child Of Nature, A Bold Stroke for a Wife, Mirth by Moonshine No No No £150 15s 6d 42% N/A
03 Dec 1788 Covent Garden The Highland Reel, A Bold Stroke for a Wife No No No £143 12s 52% N/A
17 Feb 1789 Covent Garden Inkle And Yarico, A Bold Stroke for a Wife, Negro Dance No No No £264 18s 61% N/A
10 Mar 1789 Covent Garden Inkle And Yarico, A Bold Stroke for a Wife, Negro Dance, Ballet to God Save the King, Fortune's Favor No No No £90 6s 6d 78% N/A
19 Oct 1796 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £293 4s 6d 69% N/A
27 Dec 1796 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Robinson Crusoe No No No £195 10s 44% N/A
13 Feb 1797 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, A Friend in Need, The Scotch Ghost No No No £197 6d 29% N/A
10 Jun 1797 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, No Song No Supper, Country Dance, Gavot, Hornpipe, Scotch Reel, The Minuet de la Cour No No Yes £309 9s 6d 28% N/A
23 Sep 1797 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Deserter No No No £277 13s 100% N/A
19 Dec 1797 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Richard Coeur de Lion, A Trip to the Nore No No No £277 16s 49% N/A
13 Jan 1798 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Deserter No No No £138 13s 6d 28% N/A
10 Feb 1798 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Blue Beard No No No £272 3s 6d 65% N/A
01 Jun 1798 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Sylvester Daggerwood, The Follies of a Day No No Yes £104 2s 6d N/A N/A
06 Oct 1798 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Blue Beard or Female Curiosity No No No £441 16s 6d 100% N/A
05 Nov 1798 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Blue Beard No No No £239 9s 44% N/A
14 Nov 1798 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Captive of Spilburg, New Hornpipe No No No £209 6s 6d 43% N/A
14 Dec 1798 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Captive of Spilburg, New Hornpipe No No No £99 14s 25% N/A
29 Jan 1799 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Feudal Times No No No £265 14s 6d 42% N/A
08 Oct 1799 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Embarkation No No No £245 7s 6d 100% N/A
24 Oct 1799 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, No Song No Supper No No No £146 4s 6d 37% N/A
09 Nov 1799 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Blue Beard No No No £226 7s 45% N/A
02 Jan 1800 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Lodoiska No No No £176 15s 6d 50% N/A
22 Jan 1800 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Prize No Yes No £592 5s 71% N/A
15 Apr 1800 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Lodoiska No No No £322 15s 51% N/A
08 May 1800 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, My Grandmother No No No £104 12s 24% N/A
07 Nov 1800 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke for a Wife, All the World's a Stage, Actaeon and Diana No No No £106 16s 6d 32% N/A
20 Oct 1801 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke for a Wife, Lodoiska No No No £178 4s 30% N/A
16 Mar 1802 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke for a Wife, The Festival of Bacchus, The Prize; or, 2, 5, 3, 8 No No No £182 10s 33% N/A
29 Dec 1802 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke for a Wife, Love and Magic; or, Harlequin's Holiday No No No £301 11s 48% N/A
12 Dec 1803 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke for a Wife, The Caravan; or, The Driver and his Dog No No No £286 5s 54% N/A
26 Dec 1803 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke for a Wife, The Caravan; or, The Driver and his Dog No No No £316 10s 6d 45% N/A
07 Dec 1804 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke for a Wife, Matrimony No No No £111 9s 42% N/A
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