Citation - Pennsylvania Gazette-Philadelphia: 1768.12.29

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Index Entry Actor, Byerley, Mr, to play Perdiccas in Alexander the Great [t] 
Location Philadelphia 
Citation
PG-P.768.067
29 Dec 1768:33 (2088)
Positively the last play. Never acted in America, by
authority, by the American Company, at the Theatre, in
Southwark, to-morrow, being Friday, the 30th of December,
will be presented, a tragedy, called 
Alexander the Great, or, The Rival Queens.
Alexander, by Mr. Hallam.  Lysimachus, by Mr. Henry 
Cassander, by Mr. Morris.  Philip, by Mr. Tomlinson. 
Perdiccas, by Mr. Byerley.  Meleager, by Mr. Raworth. 
Statira, by Miss Hallam. Parisatis, by Miss Storer.  Clytus,
by Mr. Douglass.  Hepheslion, by Mr. Wall.  Polyperchon, by
Mr. Parker. Thessalus, by Mr. Woolls. Eumenea, by Mr.
Roberts. Aristander, by Mr. Darby. Sysigambis, by Mrs.
Douglass.  Roxana, by Miss Cheer.  With entertainments, viz.
singing, by Mr. Woolls, and Miss M. Storer.
After the play, Mr. Wall will deliver a Critical
Dissertation upon Noses, in which will be exhibited, a turn-
up nose; a ruby nose; a Roman nose; a blunt nose; and a
hooked, or parrot's beak nose.
To which will be added, not acted this season, 
Neck or Nothing.


Generic Title Pennsylvania Gazette-Philadelphia 
Date 1768.12.29 
Publisher Hall, David, and William Sellers 
City, State Philadelphia, PA 
Year 1768 
Bibliography B0036827
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