''Love in a Veil'' is a 1718
comedy play by the British writer
Richard Savage. It was inspired by a seventeenth century play by the Spanish writer
Pedro Calderón de la Barca.
[Burling p.70] The cast included
Charles Williams as Lorenzo,
Henry Norris as Alonzo,
John Mills
Sir John Mills (born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills; 22 February 190823 April 2005) was an English actor who appeared in more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades. He excelled on camera as an appealing British everyman who often portray ...
as Sir Charles Winlove,
John Thurmond
John Thurmond (died 1727) was a British stage actor. To distinguish him from his son, also an actor named John, he is sometimes called John Thurmond the Elder.
His earliest known stage performance was in 1695, when he played in '' Cyrus the Grea ...
as Don Philip,
William Mills as Diego,
Anna Maria Seymour
Anna Maria Seymour or Mrs Seymour (c. 1692 – 10 July 1723) was a British actress.
Life
Seymour is first heard of in 1717 when she appeared at Drury Lane in ''The Scowrers''. She took leading roles in Richard III and Hamlet with Lacy Ryan as w ...
as Leonora,
Mary Willis as Fidelia and
Joe Miller as Aspin.
References
Bibliography
* Burling, William J. ''A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737''. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1992.
* Hogan, Floriana Tarantino.''The Spanish Comedia and the English Comedy of Intrigue with Special Reference to Aphra Behn''. Boston University, 1995.
1718 plays
British plays
West End plays
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