The Conscious Lovers (1722)

Author
Richard Steele
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
£24,412 15s £11,399 19s (46.7%) £13,012 16s (53.3%)
1732 - 1809
£24,412 15s - (100%) £11,399 19s (46.7%) £13,012 16s (53.3%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
321 155 166
1732 - 1809
321 155 166
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
12 Feb 1759 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No £138 14s 6d 48% N/A
29 Mar 1759 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Cheats of Scapin, Fingalian Dance, The Threshers No No Yes £223 1s 6d N/A N/A
09 May 1759 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, Queen Mab, Grand Dance, Minuet No No Yes £140 N/A N/A
10 May 1759 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Don Quixote in England, The Fingalian Dance No No Yes £128 1s N/A N/A
02 Oct 1759 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Englishman in Paris No No No £130 100% N/A
06 Oct 1759 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Virgin Unmasked, The Shepherds Holiday, Pantomime Dance, The Italian Gardiner No No No £130 100% N/A
08 Nov 1759 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, High Life Below Stairs, The Swiss No No No £160 52% N/A
08 Dec 1759 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Fair No No No £138 45% N/A
03 Jan 1760 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, Harlequin's Invasion No No No £160 64% N/A
03 Jan 1760 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Fair No No No £90 5s 36% N/A
15 Mar 1760 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, Harlequin's Invasion No No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Mar 1760 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Englishman Returned from Paris, Comic Dance, The Lamp Lighters Yes No Yes £272 15s N/A N/A
21 Apr 1760 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Lethe, Comic Dance, The Knife Grinders No No Yes £33 11s 6d N/A N/A
26 Apr 1760 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Way to Keep Him No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
09 May 1760 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, A Duke and no Duke, The Fingalian Dance, The Threshers No No Yes £145 7s 6d N/A N/A
27 May 1760 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, Love a la Mode, The New Comic Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
29 Nov 1760 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Thomas and Sally No No No £157 15s N/A N/A
30 Dec 1760 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Enchanter No No No Unknown N/A N/A
14 Feb 1761 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Thomas and Sally No No No £112 5s N/A N/A
11 Apr 1761 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Enchanter No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
25 Apr 1761 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Register Office No No No Unknown N/A N/A
06 May 1761 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Chaplet, Les Charboniers No No Yes £111 9s N/A N/A
21 May 1761 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, Polly Honeycombe No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
10 Sep 1761 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, Harlequin's Invasion No No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Oct 1761 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Coronation, New Dutch Comic Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
24 Oct 1761 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Fair No No No £54 19s N/A N/A
04 Jan 1762 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Genii No No No Unknown N/A N/A
06 May 1762 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Lying Valet, The Pleasures of Spring No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
08 May 1762 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Apprentice, Hearts of Oak No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
30 Sep 1762 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Old Maid No No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Oct 1762 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Musical Lady, The Bavarian Shoemakers, The Italian Robbers No No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Nov 1762 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
14 Dec 1762 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Witches No No No Unknown N/A N/A
05 Oct 1763 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Citizen, The Sicilian Peasants Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
13 Oct 1763 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Citizen, The Sicilian Peasants No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
14 Dec 1763 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, High Life below Stairs, The Provancalle No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
31 Dec 1763 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Rites of Hecate No No No £191 11s N/A N/A
08 Feb 1764 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Perseus and Andromeda and the Arcadian Nuptials No No No Unknown N/A N/A
04 Oct 1764 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Witches No No No Unknown N/A N/A
24 Oct 1764 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Perseus and Andromeda No No No Unknown N/A N/A
14 Jan 1765 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, Queen Mab, The Medley No No No Unknown N/A N/A
02 Feb 1765 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Rites of Hecate, The Medley No No No Unknown N/A N/A
23 Oct 1765 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, Daphne and Amintor No No No Unknown N/A N/A
13 Nov 1765 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Royal Chace No No No Unknown N/A N/A
14 Nov 1765 Covent Garden He Conscious Lovers, The Royal Chace Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
04 Apr 1766 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Musical Lady, The Irish Lilt, Hearts of Oak No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
22 Apr 1766 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Thomas and Sally, Rural Love No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
16 May 1766 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, Miss in Her Teens, Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
20 Nov 1766 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, Neck or Nothing No No No £182 18s 6d 43% N/A
09 Dec 1766 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Harlequin Dr Faustus No No No £119 16s 6d 48% N/A
26 May 1767 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Harlequin Dr Faustus, Double Hornpipe, The Wapping Landlady No No Yes £205 3s N/A N/A
20 Nov 1767 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, Harlequin's Invasion, The Gardners Holiday No No No Unknown N/A N/A
19 Dec 1767 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Deuce Is in Him, Hearts of Oak No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
18 Oct 1768 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, Harlequin's Invasion Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Jan 1769 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Padlock No No No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Apr 1769 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, A Peep behind the Curtain, Hearts of Oak No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
07 Apr 1769 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Upholsterer, The Irish Lilt No No Yes £211 9s N/A N/A
08 Nov 1769 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Jubilee No No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Dec 1769 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Lyar, Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
03 Feb 1770 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Jubilee No No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Oct 1770 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Jubilee No No No Unknown N/A N/A
29 Oct 1771 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Institution of the Garter No No No £184 9s 49% N/A
07 Apr 1772 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, High Life below Stairs, The Sailors' Revels, A Comic Paraphrase of Shakespeare's Seven Ages, Lincos Travels Yes No Yes £187 12s 6d 31% N/A
11 Feb 1773 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Irish Widow, The Irish Fair No No No £159 3s 57% N/A
22 May 1773 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Daphne and Amintor, Hornpipe No No Yes £238 13s 9% N/A
25 May 1773 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Author, Hornpipe, The Sailors' Revels No No Yes £269 3s 6d 37% N/A
07 Oct 1774 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Sylphs, The Vintage Festival No No No Unknown N/A N/A
19 Oct 1774 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Comus, The Vintage Festival No No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Oct 1774 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Comus, The Vintage Festival No No No Unknown N/A N/A
17 Nov 1774 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Comus, The Vintage Festival No No No Unknown N/A N/A
10 May 1775 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, Harlequin's Jacket No No Yes £188 14s N/A N/A
11 May 1775 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Druids, Double Hornpipe, The Humours of Blackwall No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Oct 1775 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Theatrical Candidates, Bon Ton or High Life Above Stairs, The Savage Hunters No No No £240 14s 6d N/A N/A
30 Oct 1775 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Elopement, The Savage Hunters No No No £166 15s N/A N/A
05 Jan 1776 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Prometheus No No No Unknown N/A N/A
24 Apr 1776 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Syrens No No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Oct 1776 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, A Christmas Tale No No No £120 13s 6d 36% N/A
04 Nov 1776 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Love a la Mode No No No £192 4s 6d 50% N/A
06 Nov 1776 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Three Weeks after Marriage, The Merry Sailors, The Enchantress No Yes No £266 6s 6d 64% N/A
17 Dec 1776 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Rival Candidates, Comic Dance No No Yes £253 9s N/A N/A
08 Oct 1777 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Royal Chace, The Humours of Leixlip, I Have Lost My Anna No No No £197 1s 100% N/A
04 Nov 1777 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Love a la Mode, The Enchantress, I Have Lost My Anna No No No £92 18s 6d 41% N/A
12 Mar 1778 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Mother Shipton, I Have Lost My Anna No No No £168 10s 6d 55% N/A
11 Dec 1778 Covent Garden Rose And Colin, The Conscious Lovers, The Wives Revenged, The Merry Sailors No No No Unknown N/A N/A
27 Sep 1779 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Device or The Deaf Doctor, The Dockyard, The Cottage on The Lawn No No No £190 4s 6d 100% N/A
06 Jan 1781 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, Queen Mab No No No £82 18s 29% N/A
08 May 1782 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, Linco's Travels, The Gentle Shepherd, Minuet, Gavot No No Yes £252 19s 51% N/A
19 Sep 1782 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Lying Valet, Minuet de la Cour, A Dramatic Oglio No No No £141 9s 6d 100% N/A
23 Oct 1782 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Flitch of Bacon No No No £172 19s 42% N/A
19 Dec 1782 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, Too Civil by Half No No Yes £270 8s 6d 37% N/A
20 Feb 1783 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Triumph of Mirth No No No £128 15s 42% N/A
07 Oct 1783 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, Comus No No No £198 100% N/A
08 Oct 1783 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Rosina No No No £217 16s 6d 42% N/A
07 Jan 1784 Drury Lane Conscious Lovers, Harlequin Junior or The Magis Cestus No No No £261 5s 6d 60% N/A
01 Oct 1784 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Musical Lady, Pastoral Sports No No No Unknown N/A N/A
04 Nov 1784 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Spanish Rivals No No No £160 2s 6d N/A N/A
11 Mar 1786 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Sultan, The Recruiting Sergeant No No No £216 15s 6d 58% N/A
27 Mar 1787 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Lady Pentweazle in Town, The Intriguing Chambermaid No No Yes £274 16s 53% N/A
04 Feb 1788 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Maid of the Oaks No No No £218 15s 59% N/A
11 Feb 1788 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Maid of the Oaks No No No £210 4s 58% N/A
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