Love's Victory (Hyde play)

Love's Victory is an 1825 comedy play by the British writer George Hyde. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London on 16 November 1825. The original cast included Charles Kemble as Don Cesar, Prince of Naples, John Duruset as Don Luis, Prince of Bearne, Daniel Egerton as Don Diego, Duke of Barcelona, Tyrone Power as Gaston, Prince of Foix, William Farren as Don Pedro, William Blanchard as Lopez and Maria Ann Lacy as Princess Diana. It was inspired by the seventeenth century Golden Age Spanish work  El desdén, con el desdén by Agustín Moreto, which was also adapted by Moliere. It published the same year by Hurst, Robinson of Waterloo Place in London and Constable in Edinburgh.

Synopsis
Two suitors Don Cesar and Don Gaston court Princess Diana for her hand in marriage while Don Cesar, despite his love for her remains aloof, upsetting her pride. She plays them off against each other, leading to both the Princess and Don Cesar announcing their engagements to others, before eventually they are brought together.