A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1718)

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 Dec 1762 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Witches, The Irish Lilt No No No Unknown N/A N/A
06 Jan 1763 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
27 Jan 1763 Covent Garden Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Rape of Proserpine, The Dutch Skippers No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
05 Apr 1763 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Chaplet, The Dutch Skippers, The Cries of London No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
02 May 1763 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Harlequin Statue, The Sicilian Peasants No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
19 Oct 1763 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Nov 1763 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
07 Dec 1763 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Thomas and Sally No No No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Dec 1763 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Rites of Hecate No No No £179 9s 6d N/A N/A
21 Feb 1764 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Old Maid, Venus Revenged, The Calabrian Peasants No No No Unknown N/A N/A