Who's the Dupe? (1779)

Author
Hannah Cowley
Author
Susanna Centlivre
Work Type
Afterpiece
Genre
Farce
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
£24,156 13s 6d £388 7s (1.6%) £23,768 6s 6d (98.4%)
1732 - 1809
£24,156 13s 6d - (100%) £388 7s (1.6%) £23,768 6s 6d (98.4%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
115 1 114
1732 - 1809
115 1 114
Notes
Based partly on Susanna Centlivre's 'The Stolen Heiress' (1702).
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
20 May 1780 Drury Lane Twelfth Night, Who's The Dupe? No No Yes £256 14s 41% N/A
26 Sep 1780 Drury Lane Love In A Village, Who's the Dupe?, Country Dance, Minuet de la Cour, The Butterfly No No No £159 13s 100% N/A
18 Oct 1780 Drury Lane The Maid Of The Mill, Who's the Dupe?, The Force of Love, Minuet de la Cour No No No £115 17s 38% N/A
17 Nov 1780 Drury Lane A Trip To Scarborough, Who's the Dupe?, Minuet de la Cour No No No £75 17s 30% N/A
24 Jan 1781 Drury Lane Artaxerxes, Who's the Dupe?, The Countryman Deceiv'd, Minuet de la Cour No No No £115 18s 6d 34% N/A
21 Apr 1781 Drury Lane A School For Fathers, Who's the Dupe, Minuet de la Cour, The Soldier Tired of War's Alarms No No Yes £201 12s 38% N/A
27 Apr 1781 Drury Lane Dissipation, Who's the Dupe, The Irish Fair, The Minuet de la Cour No No Yes £118 12s 6d N/A N/A
10 May 1781 Drury Lane The Fair Quaker Or The Humours Of The Navy, A Fete, Who's the Dupe?, The Butterfly, Rule Britannia No No Yes £203 4s 27% N/A
16 May 1781 Drury Lane Cymon, Who's the Dupe?, The Irish Fair No No Yes £180 3s 6d 40% N/A
23 May 1781 Drury Lane Every Man In His Humour, Who's the Dupe?, Hornpipe, The Early Horn, The Butterfly No No Yes £305 7s 33% N/A
15 Sep 1781 Drury Lane Love In A Village, Who's the Dupe?, Country Dance, The Devonshire Minuet No No No £100 7s 100% N/A
19 Oct 1781 Drury Lane King Arthur Or The British Worthy, Who's the Dupe? No No No £123 8s 6d N/A N/A
17 Sep 1782 Drury Lane The Clandestine Marriage, Who's the Dupe, Minuet de la Cour, A Dramatic Oglio No No No £200 4s 100% N/A
22 Oct 1782 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, Who's the Dupe, The Irish Fair No No No £113 10s 6d 42% N/A
08 Nov 1782 Drury Lane Jane Shore, Who's the Dupe, Minuet de la Cour No No No £232 56% N/A
10 Feb 1783 Drury Lane The Fair Penitent, Who's The Dupe, The Devonshire Minuet No No No £282 14s 6d 58% N/A
17 Feb 1783 Drury Lane Venice Preserved, Who's the Dupe, Minuet de la Cour No No No £297 3s 6d 55% N/A
15 Mar 1783 Drury Lane Isabella, Who's the Dupe, The Irish Fair, Epithalamium No No No £291 1s 6d 54% N/A
08 Apr 1783 Drury Lane Venice Preserved, Who's the Dupe No No Yes £315 5s 48% N/A
12 Apr 1783 Drury Lane The Grecian Daughter, Who's the Dupe No Yes No £282 15s 6d 57% N/A
21 May 1783 Drury Lane The Tender Husband, Who's the Dupe, The Irish Fair, Hornpipe No No Yes £225 2s N/A N/A
29 Oct 1783 Drury Lane Edward The Black Prince, Who's the Dupe No No No £134 11s 6d 52% N/A
11 Nov 1783 Drury Lane Measure For Measure, Who's the Dupe No No No £218 9s 6d 55% N/A
18 Dec 1783 Drury Lane The Gamester, Who's the Dupe, New Comic Ballet No No No £244 4s 65% N/A
31 Dec 1783 Drury Lane Douglas, Who's the Dupe No No No £243 3s 65% N/A
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