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The Gladiator (1831 play)
''The Gladiator'' is a tragic melodrama in five acts written by Robert Montgomery Bird originally starring Edwin Forrest.
It first premiered on September 26, 1831 at the Park Theatre in New York City.
==Background==
''Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags'', a play by John Augustus Stone won Forrest's inaugural play prize in 1829. A huge success, ''Metamora'' inspired Forrest to continue offering the prize. Robert Montgomery Bird, a doctor without "an all-consuming passion for medicine," hearing of the prize, penned and submitted his first play, the blank verse tragedy ''Pelopidas, or The Fall of the Polemarchs''. Although ''Pelopidas'' won the prize, it was not produced or published until 1919, possibly because Pelopidas does not dominate the action of his play in the way Metamora managed and therefore failed to show off Forrest's abilities adequately. The following year, however, Bird won Forrest's prize a second time with that play that would become his most impactful, ''The Gladiator''. Bird's brother Henry, in a letter advised Robert to continue with ''The Gladiator'' as Spartacus was "altogether more suited to Forrest's Roman figure & actions."
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