Lovers' Vows (1798)

Author
Elizabeth Inchbald
Author
August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue
Work Type
Mainpiece
Genre
Drama/entertainment
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
£21,337 2s £17,558 16s (82.3%) £3,778 6s (17.7%)
1732 - 1809
£21,337 2s - (100%) £17,558 16s (82.3%) £3,778 6s (17.7%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
75 62 13
1732 - 1809
75 62 13
Notes
Adapted from August von Kotzebue's "Das Kinde der Liebe" (1791).
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
30 May 1799 Covent Garden The Horse And The Widow, Lovers' Vows, The Spoiled Child No No No £163 16s 53% N/A
12 Jun 1799 Covent Garden Lovers' Vows, The Jew and the Doctor, Hope Told a Flattering Tale, Grand Sonata on the Piano Forte, with new Rondo, Collins's Ode on the Passions, Lesson (Nicolai), The Birth Day Ode No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
10 Oct 1799 Covent Garden Lover's [recte Lovers'] Vows, The Naval Pillar, Black Ey'd Susan, A Bundle of Proverbs, An Hungry Fox One Day Did Spy, Britons, Your Country's Gratitude Behold, In Praise of the Tars Who Have Leathered the World, Sir Sydney Smith, The Embarkation, The Navy and Army of Britain Forever, We Come, Ye Guardians of Our Isle, When a Tar Returns Home, When Britain First Her Flag Upreared, When Peace Smiles Around No No No £212 7s 6d 48% N/A
26 Oct 1799 Covent Garden Lovers' Vows, The Death of Captain Cook, The Naval Pillar, Black Ey'd Susan, A Bundle of Proverbs, An Hungry Fox One Day Did Spy, Britons, Your Country's Gratitude Behold, In Praise of the Tars Who Have Leathered the World, Sir Sydney Smith, The Embarkation, The Navy and Army of Britain Forever, We Come, Ye Guardians of Our Isle, When a Tar Returns Home, When Britain First Her Flag Upreared, When Peace Smiles Around No No No £218 11s 6d 50% N/A
19 Dec 1799 Covent Garden Lovers' Vows, The Turnpike Gate No No No £129 1s 6d 51% N/A
27 Dec 1799 Covent Garden Lovers' Vows, The Volcano No No No £312 11s 62% N/A
19 Apr 1800 Covent Garden Lovers' Vows, Saturday Night at Sea, Lock and Key, Collins's Ode on the Passions No No Yes £303 19s 6d 28% N/A
05 Jun 1800 Covent Garden Lovers' Vows, Oscar and Malvina, The Fox, Stag and Hare, Imitations, Come Every Jovial Fellow, I Am a Jolly Gay Pedlar, O Ever in My Bosom Live, The Anchor Smiths, The Red Cross Knight No No Yes £445 N/A N/A
22 Sep 1800 Covent Garden Lover's Vows, The Poor Soldier No No No £335 1s 100% N/A
26 Sep 1800 Covent Garden Lover's Vows, The Poor Soldier No No No £255 11s 100% N/A
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