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 *andraean Tragedy, Julius Caesar, in revised texts, the last three with separate t.ps.] 1637. Recreations with the Muses. By William Earle of Sterline. ''Tho. Harper. [Croesus, Darius, The Alexandraean Tragedy, Julius Caesar''.] 1870-2. Poetical Works. 3 vols. 1921. L. E. Kastner and H. B. Charlton, The Poetical Works of Sir William Alexander, Earl of Stirling. Vol. i. The Dramatic Works.—Dissertations: C. Rogers, Memorials of the Earl of S. and the House of A. (1877); H. Beumelburg, Sir W. A. Graf von S., als dramatischer Dichter (1880, Halle diss.). Darius > 1603

1603. The Tragedie of Darius. By William Alexander of Menstrie. Robert Waldegrave. Edinburgh. [Verses to James VI; Epistle to Reader; Commendatory verses by 'Io Murray' and 'W. Quin'.] 1604. G. Elde for Edward Blount. [Part of Coll. 1604, with separate t.p.; also in later Colls. Two sets of verses to King at end.] Croesus > 1604

1604. [Part of Coll. 1604; also in later Colls. Argument; Verses to King at end.] The Alexandraean Tragedy > 1607

1605? [Hazlitt, Manual, 7, and others cite a print of this date, which is not confirmed by Greg, Plays, 1.] 1607. (Running Title). The Alexandraean Tragedie. [Part of Coll. 1607; also in later Colls. Argument.] Julius Caesar > 1607

1607. The Tragedie of Iulius Caesar. By William Alexander, Gentleman of the Princes priuie Chamber. ''Valentine Simmes for Ed. Blount. [Part of Coll. 1607, with separate t.p.; also in later Colls.'' Argument.]

Edition in H. H. Furness, Julius Caesar (1913, New Variorum Shakespeare, xvii).

WILLIAM ALLEY (c. 1510-70).

Alley's [Greek: Ptôchomyseion]. The Poore Mans Librarie (1565) contains three and a half pages of dialogue between Larymos and Phronimos, described as from 'a certaine interlude or plaie intituled Aegio. In the which playe ij persons interlocutorie do dispute, the one alledging for the defence of destenie and fatall necessitie, and the other confuting the same'. P. Simpson (9 N. Q. iii. 205) suggests that Alley was probably himself the author. The book consists of praelectiones delivered in 1561 at St. Paul's, of which Alley had been a Prebendary. He became Bishop of Exeter in 1560. On his attitude to the public stage, cf. App. C. No. viii. It is therefore odd to find the Lord Bishop's players at Barnstaple and Plymouth in 1560-1 (Murray, ii. 78).