*p1677 03 17 dl The Rival Queens; or, The Death of Alexander the Great. Edition of 1677: Prologue to Alexander by $Sir Char. Scroop, Baronet=-; Epilogue-; Alexander-Hart; Clytus-Mohun; Lysimachus-Griffin; Hephestion-Clarke; Cassander-Kenaston; Polyperchon-Goodman; Philip-Powell; Thessalus-Wiltshire; Perdiccas-Lydall; Eumenes-Watson; Meleager-Perin; Aristander-Coysh; Sysigambis-Mrs Corey; Statira-Mrs Boutell; Roxana-Mrs Marshall; Parisatis-Mrs Baker.*c1677 03 17 dl The <i>King's Company</i>. This performance is on the <i>L. C. list</i>, 5@141, p. 359: <i>The Rivall Queene</i>. See also <i>Nicoll, Restoration Drama</i>, p. 346. That this is the premiere is indicated by a letter from the $Marquis of Worcester= to the $Marchioness=, 17 March 1676@7: $Sir Charles Sedley='s <i>Cleopatra</i> has been acted often, and to-day a new play of <i>the death of Alexander</i>, but I have not been to see either, living a mighty drudging life (<i>HMC, 12th Report</i>, Appendix, <i>Beaufort MSS</i>., IX, 66). $Downes= (<i>Roscius Anglicanus</i>, p. 11), has a cast which agrees (except for omissions) with that in the edition of 1677. Downes adds (p. 16): [Hart in] Alexander, towards the latter End of his Acting; if he Acted in any one of these but once in a Fortnight, the House was fill'd as at a New Play, especially <i>Alexander</i>, he Acting that with such Grandeur and Agreeable Majesty, That one of the Court was pleas'd to Honour him with this Commendation; That $Hart= might Teach any King on Earth how to Comport himself.