Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Dame Rebecca Berry. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green , 1827, 3 vols.
prelims
Nicholas Rowe
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Standard Name: Rowe, Nicholas
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Fidelia | The subtitle notes that this is a song, designed to go to the tune of Colin's Complaint—which was a popular ballad by Nicholas Rowe
, about a shepherd afflicted by despairing love. This suggests... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Julia Frankau | The title-page of The Copper Crash quotes lines by Nicholas Rowe
, the early eighteenth-century author of she-tragedies featuring pathetic heroines. Frank Danby's preface broaches the topic of hypnotism, which it regards as a... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | The title-page quotes are from Nicholas Rowe
's Jane Shore and an unidentified old play. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs Ross | MR
's title is a complex literary allusion. The tragic heroine of Nicholas Rowe
's The Fair Penitent, 1703, tells her unwanted fiancé that their hearts were never paired above . . . joined... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Teresia Constantia Phillips | TCP
placed on the title-page of her Apology a quotation from Nicholas Rowe
's The Fair Penitent, the period's most famous treatment of a woman who is deserving although fallen. She later emphasises her... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford | The poem of invitation, based on Nicholas Rowe
's ballad beginning Dear Colin, prevent my warm blushes, qtd. in Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy. Editors Halsband, Robert and Isobel Grundy, Oxford University Press, 1993. 263 |
| Leisure and Society | Mary Deverell | When in her teens she attended performances of Ambrose Philips
's The Distressed Mother and Nicholas Rowe
's The Fair Penitent, she says, I shed more real tears on the occasion, than would have... |
| Occupation | Charlotte Charke | Her career opened well. Next year she took the demanding role of Alicia in Nicholas Rowe
's Jane Shore. She became stock-reader or general understudy in the Drury Lane Company
, in which capacity she played Cleopatra. Baruth, Philip E. “Who Is Charlotte Charke?”. Introducing Charlotte Charke: Actress, Author, Enigma, edited by Philip E. Baruth, University of Illinois Press, 1998, pp. 9-62. 18 |
| Occupation | Fanny Kemble | Later in 1830, when she acted Calista in Nicholas Rowe
's The Fair Penitent, Thomas Noon Talfourd
told Mary Russell Mitfordthat, at a distance from the stage, he could almost have imagined her... |
| Occupation | Charlotte Lennox | Charlotte Ramsay (later CL
) first appeared on stage in London: at Drury Lane
, as Lavinia in The Fair Penitent by Nicholas Rowe
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 3: 1214 |
| Occupation | Charlotte Charke | CC
, at Henry Fielding
's Haymarket Theatre
, appeared in male roles: as Macheath (John Gay
), Falstaff (Shakespeare
), George Barnwell (George Lillo
), and Lothario (Nicholas Rowe
). The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 3: 402ff |
| Performance of text | Elizabeth Inchbald | The Widow's Vow, an afterpiece adapted by EI
, had its first performance, following Nicholas Rowe
's Jane Shore at the Haymarket Theatre
: it was published the same year. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 5: 895 |
| Performance of text | Susanna Centlivre | SC
's only mature tragedy, The Cruel Gift; or, The Royal Resentment (said to have been written in collaboration with Nicholas Rowe
, though its several editions give her name alone), opened at Drury Lane
. Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952. 207 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
| Textual Features | Maria Susanna Cooper | |
| Textual Production | Anne Burke | The title-page quotes from Nicholas Rowe
. |
Timeline
May 1703: Nicholas Rowe published his she-tragedy The...
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May 1703
Nicholas Rowe
published his she-tragedyThe Fair Penitent.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
2 February 1714: Nicholas Rowe's Tragedy of Jane Shore was...
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2 February 1714
Nicholas Rowe
's Tragedy of Jane Shore was first performed.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
20 April 1715: Nicholas Rowe's she-tragedy Lady Jane Gray...
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20 April 1715
Nicholas Rowe
's she-tragedyLady Jane Gray was first performed.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
6 December 1718: Nicholas Rowe, playwright, translator, and...
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6 December 1718
Nicholas Rowe
, playwright, translator, and editor of Shakespeare
, died after four years in the post of Poet Laureate.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
30 July 1796: The earliest known Australian imprint is...
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30 July 1796
The earliest known Australian imprint is a playbill printed for a performance on this day in Sydney of Nicholas Rowe
's she-tragedyJane Shore.
Gamache, Pierre. “Library and Archives Canada: Popular Content and Access”. PopPrint. Continuities and Innovations: Popular Print Cultures—Past and Present, Local and Global, University of Alberta, 28 Aug. 2008.
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