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 %
06 Feb 1784 Drury Lane Jane Shore, Who's the Dupe, New Comic Ballet No No No £205 4s 6d 46% N/A
29 Apr 1784 Drury Lane Tancred And Sigismunda, Who's the Dupe No No No £208 8s 6d 50% N/A
17 May 1784 Drury Lane Amphitryon Or The Two Sosias, Who's the Dupe, New Hornpipe, The Soldier Tired of War's Alarms, Allemande, The Minuet de la Cour No No Yes £185 19s 6d 29% N/A
26 May 1784 Drury Lane A New Way To Pay Old Debts, Who's the Dupe, The Jovial Sailors No No Yes £223 6s 6d 31% N/A
21 Oct 1784 Drury Lane Love In A Village, Who's the Dupe, The Sportsmen's Return No No No £123 6s 6d N/A N/A
07 Dec 1784 Drury Lane The Carmelite, Who's the Dupe No No Yes £221 10s 6d N/A N/A
15 Dec 1784 Drury Lane The Carmelite, Who's the Dupe No Yes No £265 16s N/A N/A
12 Feb 1785 Drury Lane Macbeth, Who's the Dupe No No No £273 18s 6d N/A N/A
05 Mar 1785 Drury Lane Macbeth, Who's the Dupe No No No £257 18s N/A N/A
16 Apr 1785 Drury Lane Elfrida, Who's the Dupe No No No £140 17s 6d N/A N/A
11 May 1785 Drury Lane The Way To Keep Him, Who's the Dupe, Stand to Your Guns, Bright Phoebus has Mounted the Chariot of Day, Jack Thou Art a Toper, Toby's Brown Jug No No Yes £173 16s 6d N/A N/A
20 Feb 1786 Drury Lane Jane Shore, Who's the Dupe No Yes No £274 13s 57% N/A
03 May 1786 Drury Lane The Country Girl, Who's the Dupe, The Lucky Return, Bright Phoebus No No Yes £295 13s 53% N/A
11 May 1786 Drury Lane Isabella, Who's the Dupe, Epithalamium No No Yes £317 6s 6d 43% N/A
20 May 1786 Drury Lane Percy, Who's the Dupe No No No £154 7s 6d 67% N/A
21 Sep 1786 Drury Lane The Country Girl, Who's the Dupe No No No £208 14s 100% N/A
16 Oct 1786 Drury Lane The Gamester, Who's the Dupe No No No £195 16s 44% N/A
17 Apr 1787 Drury Lane Venice Preserved, Who's the Dupe No No Yes £283 12s 50% N/A
26 Apr 1787 Drury Lane The Grecian Daughter, Who's the Dupe No No No £165 9s 6d 52% N/A
05 May 1787 Drury Lane Seduction, Who's the Dupe No No Yes £153 3s 6d N/A N/A
14 May 1787 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, Who's the Dupe, Stand to Your Guns, Bucks Have at Ye All No No Yes £292 17s 6d 36% N/A
31 May 1787 Drury Lane The West Indian, Who's the Dupe, Hornpipe, Highland Reel, Minuet de la Cour No No Yes £233 14s 6d 51% N/A
05 Dec 1787 Drury Lane Artaxerxes, Who's the Dupe No No No £64 17s 6d 22% N/A
08 Dec 1787 Drury Lane The West Indian, Who's the Dupe No No No £80 9s 31% N/A
15 Mar 1788 Drury Lane Isabella, Who's the Dupe, Epithalamium No No No £219 18s 58% N/A
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