ROWE Nicholas (Rowe Nicholas)

(1674-1718)
Born in Little Barforde (Bedfordshire) in 1674. He studied at the lawyer in the 'Middle Temple', became a barrister, after the death of his father received an inheritance and took up literary work. His most significant dramatic works - Ambitious Stepmother (Ambitious Stepmother, . 1700), Timur (Tamerlane, . 1702); Beautiful Sinner (Fair Penitent, . 1703); tragedy of Jane Shore (Jane Shore, . 1714) and Lady Jane Gray (Lady Jane Gray, . 1716),
. In some of his plays Rowe combined with the heroic drama of family tragedy. In the center of the action is usually the heroine, whose plight is at the viewer sympathy and compassion. Rowe was one of the first editors of Shakespeare. Completed them Shakespeare saw the light in 1709. Rowe first introduced them is still preserved the division into acts and scenes, said output and goings of actors from the stage and prefaced each piece dramatis personae. Rowe died Dec. 6, 1718, is buried in Westminster Abbey.