page_title: Love and Honour (play)
section_title: Dramatis Personae (1661)
hierarchical_section_title: Love and Honour (play) / Dramatis Personae (1661)
context_page_description: Love and Honour is a Restoration tragicomedy by English Renaissance theatre playwright Sir William Davenant which was produced at his playhouse Lisle's Tennis Court in Lincoln's Inn Fields in London for a 12 day run in October 1661 and which featured Thomas Betterton as Prince Alvaro and Hester Davenport as Evandra.
  The work had previously been performed in 1633 as The Courage of Love by the King's Men at Blackfriars Theatre and had been renamed The Nonpareilles, or The Matchless Maids by Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels, at Davenant's request, who was unhappy with the original title. Popular in its day, The Nonpareilles was revived by order of Queen Henrietta Maria, consort of Charles I, in a performance at Hampton Court during the plague of 1636-37 when the theatres were closed.
  The play, in which one woman is willing to sacrifice herself to save a close female friend, was described as resembling the works of Shakespeare and, while set in Savoy, had no historical basis. The work concerned the fictional Duke of Savoy and his son Prince Alvaro
context_section_description: The old Duke of Savoy - Thomas Lilliston
  Disguised like Embassadors:
  His brother
  the Duke of Millaine
  Alvaro, Prince of Savoy - Thomas Betterton
  Leonell, Prince of Parma - Joseph Price
  Prospero, a young Count - Henry Harris
  Caladine, an old Counsellor
  Vasco, a Collonell
  Altesto
  Frivolo
  Tristan
  Officers and Souldiers.
  Evandra, Heire of Millaine - Hester Davenport
  Melora Sister to Leonell
  An old Widow
  Lelia, her Maide
  Boy
  Musitians
  Souldiers
  Servants
  The Scaene Savoy.
caption: Thomas Betterton played Alvaro, Prince of Savoy
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