{{short description|1724 play}} {{Infobox play | name =The Roman Maid | image = | image_size = | caption = | writer = Robert Hurst | setting = | date of premiere = 11 August 1724<ref>Burling p.106</ref> | original language = English | place = Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre | series = | subject = | genre = Tragedy }} '''''The Roman Maid''''' is a 1724 tragedy by the British writer Robert Hurst.<ref>Nicoll p.31</ref> It is set during the reign of the Roman Emperor Diocletian.
The original cast included John Ogden as Dioclesian, Thomas Walker as Galerius Caesar, Charles Hulett as Carus, Anthony Boheme as Paulinus and Anne Parker as Camilla.
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==Bibliography== * Burling, William J. ''A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737''. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1992. * Nicoll, Allardyce. ''A History of Early Eighteenth Century Drama: 1700-1750''. CUP Archive, 1927.
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