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 %
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
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