Nicholas Rowe

The title-page quotes from Nicholas Rowe .

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 .

SC 's later occasional poems include an epistle to and pastoral elegy on her fellow-playwright Nicholas Rowe and a twenty-first birthday poem for Addison 's stepson.

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 ).

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.

MSC 's preface says that in this age of adultery she hopes to deter other women from following the example of Jane, who became a mistress, albeit to a king (Edward IV ). Jane...

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...

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...

The poem of invitation, based on Nicholas Rowe 's ballad beginning Dear Colin, prevent my warm blushes, is an appeal for love by a female speaker who finds herself in some difficulty because of...

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...

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.

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...

Charlotte Ramsay (later CL ) first appeared on stage in London: at Drury Lane , as Lavinia in The Fair Penitent by Nicholas Rowe .

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...

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...