*p?lif The Rivals. [$Downes= (<i>Roscius Anglicanus</i>, p.23):% Theocles-Harris; Philander-Betterton; Cunopes the Jailor-Underhill; [$Pepys=:% Celania?-Mrs Gosnell; [Edition of 1668 adds: <i>Arcon</i>r-$Young=; <i>Polynices</i>r-$Smith=; <i>Provost</i>r-$Sandford=; <i>Heraclia</i>r-$Mrs Shadwell=; <i>Leucippe</i>r-$Mrs Long=;% Prologue-Price. *c?lif The <i>Duke's Company</i>. This apparently was not the first performance, but the time of premiere is not known. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: My wife and I and $Mercer= to the Duke's house, and there saw <i>The Rivalls</i>, which is no excellent play, but good acting in it; especially $Gosnell= comes and sings and dances finely, but, for all that, fell out of the key, so that the musique could not play to her afterwards, and so did $Harris= also go out of the tune to agree with her. $Downes= (p. 23): The Rivals, A Play, Wrote by $Sir William Davenant=; having a very Fine Interlude in it, of Vocal and Instrumental Musick, mixt with very Diverting Dances: $M Price= introducing the Dancing, by a short <i>Comical Prologue</i>, gain'd him an Universal Applause of the Town....And all the Womens Parts admirably Acted; chiefly <i>Celia, a Shepherdess</i>r being Mad for Love; especially in Singing several Wild and Mad Songs.