Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on
the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359:
The Rivall Queene. See also
Nicoll, Restoration Drama, 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
Cleopatra has been acted often, and to-day a new play of
the death of Alexander, but I have not been to see ei
ther, living a mighty drudging life (
HMC, 12th Report, Appendix,
Beaufort MSS., IX, 66).
Downes (
Roscius Anglicanus, 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
Alexander, 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