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Nicholas Rowe, son of John Rowe, barrister and serjeant-at-law, was baptized at Little Barford in Bedfordshire on the 30th of June 1674.
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Nicholas Rowe, son of John Rowe, barrister and serjeant-at-law, was baptized at Little Barford in Bedfordshire on the 30th of June 1674.
On his father's death he became the master of an independent fortune.
Nicholas Rowe was educated at Westminster School under Dr Busby.
He studied at the Middle Temple and was called to the bar, but, receiving an independent income on the death of his father, he turned to literary endeavors.
His first play, The Ambitious Stepmother, the scene of which is laid in Persepolis, was produced in 1700, and was followed in 1702 by Tamerlane.
In this play the conqueror represented William III, and Louis XIV is denounced as Bajazet.
It was for many years regularly acted on the anniversary of William's landing at Torbay.
In it occurs the famous character of Lothario, whose name passed into current use as the equivalent of a rake.
Calista is said to have suggested to Samuel Richardson the character of Clarissa Harlowe, as Lothario suggested Lovelace.
In 1704 Rowe tried his hand at comedy, producing The Biter at Lincoln's Inn Fields.
The Royal Convert (1707) dealt with the persecutions endured by Aribert, son of Hengist and the Christian maiden Ethelinda.
The Tragedy of Jane Shore, which was played at Drury Lane with Mrs Oldfield in the title-role in 1714, ran for nineteen nights, and kept the stage longer than any of his other works.
The Tragedy of Lady Jane Grey followed in 1715.
On the accession of George I he was made a surveyor of customs, and in 1715 he succeeded Nahum Tate as poet laureate.
This verse translation, or rather paraphrase of the Pharsalia, was called by Samuel Johnson "one of the greatest productions in English poetry, " and was widely read, running through eight editions between 1718 and 1807.
Rowe was the first modern editor of Shakespeare.
It is unfortunate that he based his text (6 vols. , 1709) on the corrupt Fourth Folio, a course in which he was followed by later editors.
We owe to him the preservation of a number of Shakespearian traditions, collected for him at Stratford by Thomas Betterton.
Rowe wrote occasional verses addressed to Godolphin and Halifax, adapted some of the odes of Horace to fit contemporary events, and translated the Caracteres of La Bruyere and the Callipatdia of C. Quillet.
He also wrote a memoir of Boileau prefixed to a translation of the Lutrin.
Rowe's Works were printed in 1727, and in 1736, 1747, 1756, 1766 and 1792; his occasional poems are included in Anderson's and other collections of the British poets.
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He was twice married, and his widow received a pension from George I in 1719 in recognition of her husband's translation of Lucan.