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Which theatre first staged Love for Love?
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William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Love for Love was the first production staged at the new theatre in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, which opened in April 1695 following internal conflicts at the old Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.1