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ID	3634
Last Name	Rowe
First Name	Nicholas
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Gender	Male
Date of Birth	1674
Date of Death	1718-12-06
Place of Birth	Little Barford
Place of Death	London
VIAF URI	http://viaf.org/viaf/19751395
Wikipedia Entry	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Rowe_(writer)
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Image URL	https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Nicholas_Rowe_from_NPG.jpg
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Role	Title	Date
Author	The works of Mr. William Shakespear, in nine volumes: with his life, by N. Rowe Esq; Adorn'd with cuts. To the last volume is prefix'd, I. An essay on the art, rise, and progress of the stage, in Greece, Rome, and England. II. Observations upon the most sublime passages in this author. III. A Glossary, explaining the antiquated words made use of throughout his works.	1714
Author	The Ambitious Step-Mother. A Tragedy. As Acted at the Theatres-Royal. By Nicholas Rowe, Esq	1761
Author	The Theatre: or, Select Works of the British Dramatic Poets. In twelve volumes. To which are prefixed, the lives of these celebrated writers, and strictures on most of the plays.	1768
Author	The New English Theatre in Twelve Volumes, containing the most valuable plays which have been acted on the London stage.	1776
Author	The British poets: being select poems by Addison, Pope, Prior, ... Rowe.	1777
Author	Bell's British Theatre. Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays.	1797
Author	Jane Shore: a tragedy, in five acts; By Nicholas Rowe, Esq. As performed at the Theatre-Royal Covent-Garden. With remarks by Mrs. Inchbald.	1807
Author	The British Theatre; or, A collection of plays, which are acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and Haymarket. Printed under the authority of the managers from the prompt books. With critical and biographical remarks, by Mrs. Inchbald. In twenty-five volumes.	1808
Author	The Modern British Drama. In five volumes.	1811
Author	The English Drama Purified: Being a Specimen of Select Plays, in which all the passages that have appeared to the editor to be objectionable in point of morality, are omitted or altered. With prefaces and notes. By James Plumptre, B.D. Fellow of Clark-Hall, Cambridge.	1812
Author	The English Drama, with prefatory remarks, biographical sketches, and notes, critical and explanatory; being the only edition existing which is faithfully marked with the stage business and stage directions, as performed at the Theatres Royal. Edited by W. Oxberry, Comedian.	1818
Author	The London Stage; a collection of the most reputed tragedies, comedies, operas, melo-dramas, farces, and interludes. Accurately printed from acting copies, as performed at the Theatres Royal, and carefully collated and revised.	1824
Author	Cumberland's British Theatre, with remarks, biographical and critical. Printed from the acting copies, as performed at the Theatres Royal, London.	1829

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