Who's the Dupe? (1779)

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
£20,190 4s £118 1s 6d (0.6%) £20,072 2s 6d (99.4%)
1732 - 1809
£20,190 4s - (100%) £118 1s 6d (0.6%) £20,072 2s 6d (99.4%)
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 %
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