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 %
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
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