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
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