No, no, not the guy from Young Sherlock Holmes and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. I mean Nicholas Rowe classic (1674-1718), England’s fourth Poet Laureate, first modern editor of a complete Shakespeare (1709), and a leading playwright of the Georgian Era.
The son of a propertied lawyer, Rowe read for the law in his youth and held a variety of administrative positions in adulthood, including under-secretary to the Duke of Queensberry, clerk to the Council of the Prince of Wales, and clerk of the presentations in Chancery. History remembers him for adapting works by Horace and Lucan, and for such plays as The Ambitious Stepmother (1700), Tamerlane (1701, quite different from Marlowe’s take), The Fair Penitent (1702, which gave the world the character of Lothario), The Biter (1704), Ulysses (1705), The Royal Convert (1707), The Tragedy of Jane Shore (1714) and Lady Jane Grey (1715). He was only 44 at the time of his death. Dr. Johnson and Samuel Richardson were among his admirers. Politically, he was of the Whig party.
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