"The Gladiator", an 1831 play by Robert Montgomery Bird, was based on the life of this Roman slave
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Robert Montgomery Bird - The Pennsylvania Center for the Book  After writing other plays such as Orralloosa and The Broker of Bogota, Bird turned to ... Born on February 5, 1806, Robert Montgomery Bird was an American dramatist and ... The first of Bird's tragedies to hit the stage was The Gladiator in 1831, perhaps ... It was about a slave revolt in Rome in 73 B.C. It not only attacked the...
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The Gladiator (1831 play) - Wikipedia  The Gladiator is a tragic melodrama in five acts written by Robert Montgomery Bird originally .... Dealing with slave insurgency in Ancient Rome, The Gladiator implicitly attacks .... For example, Broadway 's Her First Roman and Pippin are based on Roman Empire ... The life and Dramatic Works of Robert Montgomery Bird.
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An American Spartacus: Robert Montgomery Bird's The Gladiator ...  This article explores Robert Montgomery Bird's 1831 play The Gladiatora ... and bloody: The Gladiator, a retelling of an ancient Roman slave uprising led by the .... and Nathan Hale's "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country...
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Full text of "The life and dramatic works of Robert Montgomery Bird"  4 LIFE OF ROBERT MONTGOMERY BIRD he left a manuscript book of verse that he himself composed. ...... N. York, 6th May, 1831 Robert M. Bird, Esq., New Castle, Delaware. .... The play opens on a street in Rome where some gladiators, Phasarius .... Were The Gladiator to be produced in a slave State, Bird thinks, the...
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CETI: The City Looking Glass - Introduction - Penn Libraries  ROBERT MONTGOMERY BIRD is a singularly interesting figure in the ... When Bird began to write plays in 1827, the tentative period of American drama was over. .... It is a comedy in which life in Philadelphia is portrayed with a reality that is .... The entire first act of The Gladiator is based upon the degradation of slavery,...
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Her First Roman - Wikipedia  Her First Roman is a musical with music, lyrics, and book by Ervin Drake, based on the 1898 George Bernard Shaw play Caesar and Cleopatra. ... The opening night cast was Richard Kiley (Julius Caesar), Leslie Uggams (Cleopatra), Cal...
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Spartacus - Wikipedia  Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who, along with the Gauls Crixus, Oenomaus, Castus and Gannicus, was one of the escaped slave leaders in the Third...
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An African version of Spartacus ballet to hit the stage | Daily Mail ...  Apr 29, 2015 ... ... "Spartacus," Kirk Douglas played the gladiator who led a slave revolt against... ... Ballet scenes include a triumphant march and a big battle. During a Cape Town rehearsal, couples moved languidly during an "orgy" scene, and .... Benedict Cumberbatch quips Judge Rinder's marriage may not be legal as...
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Theodora: the empress from the brothel | Life and style | The Guardian  Jun 10, 2010 ... Actress, prostitute and empress of Rome  Theodora's life is perfect for fiction. ... in front of a vibrant, 1,500-year-old mosaic of a woman in purple. ... When he goes on to describe her husband, the emperor Justinian, as a ... Procopius's view on Theodora, which was not published until the 17th century,...
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Spartacus - Wikipedia  Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who, along with the Gauls Crixus, Oenomaus, Castus and Gannicus, was one of the escaped slave leaders in the Third Servile War, a major slave uprising against the ... In 73 BC, Spartacus was among a group of gladiators plotting an escape. About 70 slaves were part of the plot.
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Republicanism and assassination in Julius Caesar - The British ...  Malcolm Hebron situates Julius Caesar in the context of Shakespeare's life and times, ... He explores the play's use of rhetoric and theatricality, and assesses its reception ... with access to the big folio of Plutarch's Lives, whose biographies of Caesar, Brutus and ... It is a far cry from the manly patriotic virtues of ancient Rome.
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Coriolanus - The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey  of the fall of a celebrated Roman hero, Shakespeare provides ... Shakespeare's death, when ... Once inside the city, Aufidius publicly labels Coriolanus a .... TULLUS AUFIDIUS  general in the Volscian army and avowed enemy ... raised him to be the warrior he has become; pushes for her ... Caius Martius earned the title.
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J! Archive - Show #4195, aired 2002-11-22  Both Shakespeare & Clement Clarke Moore wrote about this creature not "stirring" ... William Blake wrote that "The pride of" this bird "is the glory of God"...
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Spartacus' War: The Great Roman Gladiator Revolt, 73-71 BC  Jul 10, 2012 ... A 19th century depiction of the 'Death of Spartacus' in 71 BC ... the Balkans, he had served in the Roman army before he was either outlawed and then enslaved. ... slaves and rebel gladiators en route to a crushing Roman Imperial victory ... Marcus Licinius, Crassus (b.115-53 BC), Praetor who crushes the...
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The October Horse: A Novel of Caesar and Cleopatra ... - Amazon.ca  The October Horse: A Novel of Caesar and Cleopatra (Masters of Rome); ; Customer Reviews ... I remember her from back when "The Thorn Birds" was popular. .... The current volume recounts Julius Caesar's final years, focusing on his ... "The First Man in Rome" and found myself immersed into a romantic, classical world.
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Terence - Wikipedia  Publius Terentius Afer better known in English as Terence was a Roman playwright during the Roman Republic, of Berber descent. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170160 BC. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, ... One famous quotation by Terence reads: "Homo sum, humani nihil a me...
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Spectacles of Blood: Gladiators & Martyrs - Bates College  Seneca, Epistles 7 - (on the gladiatorial games) [click on link for text] ... ill matched, when he was shedding so much blood before the eyes of the Roman people, ... and in other subordinate work, and tell them to get some fine parchment to make .... Elephants also fought for the dictator Caesar in his third consulship [46 b.c.],...
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Shakespear>5 Flashcards | Quizlet  REQUIRED READING For Shakespeare II at Notre Dame: This play in which Romans .... A LOST LETTER FROM SHAKESPEARE I have a line in this 1604 tragedy: ..... "Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang" gets its title from this man's Sonnet No. 73 ...... Line 12 of this Brit's Sonnet 142 reads, "Thy pity may deserve to pitied be".
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Terence - Famous Roman Playwright - Ancient / Classical History  Publius Terentius Afer, or Terence, was a famous playwright of North African ... 1. Ancient Roman History: Publius Terentius Afer, 2. Terence - Publius Terentius Afer ... brought to Rome as a slave by a Roman senator named Terentius Lucanus. ... a slave, and he eventually freed Terence due to his abilities as a playwright.
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Jeffrey Karnicky Ornithological Biography, Animal Studies, and ...  American writing about birds, from Walt Whitman=s claim in 1878 that, after ... Audubon published the first volume of his Ornithological Biography in 1831. ..... I=d surrendered to the inevitability of Arnold as an appellation .... man. In short, the animal is seen as incapable of response. Animals become an ...... 1831-1839.
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Ballet1 Flashcards | Quizlet  Spartacus. Kirk Douglas may know that the ballet about this gladiator who led a slave revolt includes an orgy scene.