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 Mar 1752 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Contrivances, Dutch Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
03 Apr 1752 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The What Dye Call It, Grand Comic Ballet, Grand Dutch Dance Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
27 Apr 1752 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Harlequin Sorcerer Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Apr 1752 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, Lethe No No Yes £250 N/A N/A
16 Sep 1752 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Devil to Pay, Go Rose No No No £140 100% N/A
12 Oct 1752 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, Queen Mab, The Matelot Basque, Go, Rose No No No £120 N/A N/A
31 Oct 1752 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The What Dye Call It, Les Charboniers, Les Sabotiers Tyrolese No No No Unknown N/A N/A
11 Nov 1752 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Fair, Les Charboniers No No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Nov 1752 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Anatomist No No Yes £264 N/A N/A
29 Nov 1752 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Fair No No No Unknown N/A N/A
04 Dec 1752 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Fair No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Dec 1752 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Genii No No No £170 N/A N/A
23 Jan 1753 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Apr 1753 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Harlequin Statue or The Farmer Deceivd, Les Chassuers Allemandes No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
14 May 1753 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Double Disappointment, Comic Dance, Hornpipe, Minuet No No Yes £150 N/A N/A
12 Oct 1753 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, Harlequin Ranger, Gipsey Tambourine No No No £100 N/A N/A
16 Nov 1753 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Genii Yes No No £80 N/A N/A
21 Dec 1753 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Lying Valet, New Dutch Dance, Gipsey Tambourine No No Yes £212 N/A N/A
11 Jan 1754 Drury Lane Conscious Lovers, Fortunatus No No No £120 N/A N/A
26 Mar 1754 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Lying Valet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
06 Apr 1754 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, Fortunatus, Louvre, Minuet No No Yes £180 N/A N/A
03 May 1754 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Double Disappointment, Honour and Arms, Italian Peasants, Bacchanal Song Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
04 May 1754 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Englishman in Paris, The Pierrots Dance, Punch Dance Yes No Yes £140 N/A N/A
05 Oct 1754 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Englishman in Paris Yes No No £150 100% N/A
11 Jan 1755 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, Proteus No No No £180 N/A N/A
22 Mar 1755 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Irishman in London, Comic Entertainment No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
21 Apr 1755 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Lying Valet, Hornpipe No No Yes £90 N/A N/A
22 Apr 1755 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Cheats of Scapin, Italian Peasants, Comic Dance, Louvre, Minuet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
03 May 1755 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, Miss in Her Teens, Hornpipe, The Running Footmen No No Yes £120 N/A N/A
27 Sep 1755 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Chaplet No No No £140 100% N/A
05 Dec 1755 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Cheats of Scapin, The Fingalian Dance Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
13 Dec 1755 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Genii No No No £130 N/A N/A
16 Jan 1756 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Apprentice, Peasant Dance, Pantomime Dance No No No £150 N/A N/A
16 Feb 1756 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Englishman Returnd from Paris No No No Unknown N/A N/A
03 May 1756 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Chaplet Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
11 Nov 1756 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Virgin Unmasked No No No £120 N/A N/A
11 Jan 1757 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, Mercury Harlequin Yes No No £80 N/A N/A
06 May 1757 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Oracle, A Cento on the Birthday of Shakespeare selected from his own Works, Louvre, Minuet Yes No Yes £180 N/A N/A
16 May 1757 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Lethe, Dutch Peasant, Country Lass, Lamplighters No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
06 Oct 1757 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Chaplet, The Italian Peasants No No No £100 100% N/A
14 Nov 1757 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Merlin Harlequin Skeleton, Jovial Coopers No No No £58 4s 31% N/A
26 Nov 1757 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, Harlequin Ranger, The Market No No No £80 55% N/A
15 Dec 1757 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Lethe, Fingalian Dance No No Yes £157 6s 28% N/A
25 Apr 1758 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Harlequin Statue, Tambourine No No Yes £186 4s 6d N/A N/A
27 Apr 1758 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Chaplet, Masquerade Polish Dance, Minuet Yes No Yes £220 N/A N/A
02 Oct 1758 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Knights No No No £83 17s 100% N/A
20 Nov 1758 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Lethe, The Feast of Bacchus No No No £74 8s 6d 35% N/A
22 Dec 1758 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Miller of Mansfield, The Feast of Bacchus No No Yes £31 18s 6d N/A N/A
10 Jan 1759 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No £139 11s 6d 49% N/A
20 Jan 1759 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, Fortunatus No No No £159 13s 6d 60% N/A
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