Geburtstag: 20. Juni 1674
Todesdatum: 6. Dezember 1718
Nicholas Rowe war zu seiner Zeit ein bedeutender englischer Dichter und Dramatiker. Von 1715 bis zu seinem Tod 1718 war er englischer Hofdichter.
— Nicholas Rowe, The Fair Penitent
Act i, scene 1. Compare: "But with the morning cool reflection came", Sir Walter Scott, Chronicles of the Canongate, chap. iv. Scott also quotes this in his notes to "The Monastery", chapter iii, note 11; and with "calm" substituted for "cool" in "The Antiquary", chapter v.; and with "repentance" for "reflection" in "Rob Roy", chapter xii.
The Fair Penitent (1703)
— Nicholas Rowe, The Fair Penitent
Act iii, scene 1.
The Fair Penitent (1703)
— Nicholas Rowe, The Fair Penitent
Prologue. Compare: "None think the great unhappy, but the great", Edward Young, The Love of Fame, satire 1, line 238.
The Fair Penitent (1703)
— Nicholas Rowe, The Fair Penitent
Act v, scene 1.
The Fair Penitent (1703)
Jane Shore (1714), Act II, scene 1.
