OR,

THE RIVAL QUEENS.

A TRAGEDY.

BY NATHANIEL LEE, ESQ.

CORRECTLY GIVEN, FROM COPIES USED IN THE THEATRES,

BY

THOMAS DIBDIN,

OF THE THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE;
Author of several Dramatic Pieces, &c.

Printed at the Chiswick Press,
BY C. WHITTINGHAM;

FOR WHITTINGHAM AND ARLISS, PATERNOSTER
ROW, LONDON.

ALEXANDER THE GREAT

WAS first acted under the title of the RIVAL QUEENS in 1677; and, in spite of the strange melange of bombast and beautifully poetic imagery it presents, it was extremely well received, and is still a very attractive play; to which probably the necessary splendour of its appointments may not a little contribute. There are passages however of so much intrinsic merit in it, that if, as some biographers report, the author was a little insane, it is a pity he had not bitten some of his brethren, who lacked his glowing, though extravagant, fire of fancy.