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 %
07 Apr 1788 Drury Lane Artaxerxes, Who's the Dupe No No Yes £351 5s 6d 40% N/A
21 Oct 1788 Drury Lane Macbeth, Who's the Dupe No No No £202 4s 53% N/A
05 Mar 1789 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Who's the Dupe No No No £100 1s 31% N/A
17 Oct 1789 Drury Lane The Tempest, Who's the Dupe, Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite No No No £244 5s 60% N/A
04 Nov 1789 Drury Lane Inkle And Yarico, Who's the Dupe No No No £77 9s 6d 23% N/A
28 Nov 1789 Drury Lane The Haunted Tower, Who's the Dupe No No No £236 4s 53% N/A
08 Dec 1789 Drury Lane The Haunted Tower, Who's the Dupe No No Yes £201 17s 6d N/A N/A
16 Dec 1789 Drury Lane The Haunted Tower, Who's the Dupe No Yes No £290 11s 6d 50% N/A
22 Apr 1790 Drury Lane The Haunted Tower, Who's the Dupe No No No £206 19s 58% N/A
15 Feb 1791 Drury Lane The Siege Of Belgrade, Who's the Dupe No No No £238 52% N/A
24 Oct 1791 Drury Lane The Siege Of Belgrade, Who's the Dupe No No No £248 9s 6d 50% N/A
22 May 1792 Drury Lane The Country Girl, Who's the Dupe, The Deserter of Naples or Royal Clemency No No Yes £345 5s 38% N/A
01 Jan 1793 Drury Lane The Pirates, Who's the Dupe No No No £157 17s 6d 36% N/A
08 May 1795 Covent Garden Love Makes A Man Or The Fops Fortune, The Sailor's Prize, Who's the Dupe, Garland Dance (composed by Byrn), The Storm, Admiral Benbow, Four and Twenty Fidlers, Let us love and let us drink, Now landed from the Ocean, Teddy OShaughnesseys History No No Yes £388 7s 37% N/A
13 Oct 1796 Drury Lane The Grecian Daughter, Who's the Dupe, The Triumph of Love No No No £348 63% N/A
29 Oct 1796 Drury Lane The Grecian Daughter, Who's the Dupe, The Scotch Ghost or Little Fannys Love No No No £325 19s 6d 59% N/A
26 Nov 1796 Drury Lane The Mountaineers, Who's the Dupe No No No £162 12s 6d 43% N/A
05 Jan 1797 Drury Lane Richard Coeur De Lion, Who's the Dupe, Robinson Crusoe, The Scotch Ghost No No No £191 16s 43% N/A
22 Apr 1797 Drury Lane The Will, Who's the Dupe No No No £282 19s 54% N/A
09 Dec 1797 Drury Lane The Tempest Or The Enchanted Island, Who's the Dupe, The Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite No No No £142 7s 6d 40% N/A
12 Jan 1798 Drury Lane The Wheel Of Fortune, Who's the Dupe No No No £87 1s 6d 25% N/A
01 May 1800 Drury Lane The Wheel Of Fortune, Who's the Dupe No Yes No £432 10s 77% N/A
04 Oct 1800 Drury Lane The Siege of Belgrade, Who's the Dupe? No No No £334 3s 6d 100% N/A
14 Oct 1800 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Who's the Dupe? No No No £184 12s 43% N/A
09 Dec 1800 Drury Lane The Siege of Belgrade, Who's the Dupe? No No No £118 8s 6d 33% N/A
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