In 1828, Bird's play Pelopidas won a $1000 prize offered by the actor Edwin Forrest, but was never produced.
In literature he is best known by the tragedy of Aylmere, purchased by Edwin Forrest, in which that actor played the part of Jack Cade.
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Fisher performed with most of the great actors of the time like William Charles Macready, Edmund Kean, Edwin Booth (brother of John Wilkes Booth), John Brougham, Joseph Jefferson, Laura Keene and Edwin Forrest.
In 1843-1844 he made a prosperous tour in the United States, but his last visit to that country, in 1849, was marred by a riot at the Astor Place Theatre, New York, arising from the jealousy of the actor Edwin Forrest, and resulting in the death of twenty-three persons and the further injuring of one hundred, who were shot by the militia called out to quell the disturbance; Judge Charles Patrick Daly later presided at the trial.