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He was also considered the first editor of the works of William Shakespeare. Nicholas Rowe. Portrait of Nicholas Rowe. Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. In ...
Mar 29, 2022 · Nicholas Rowe is often referred to as William Shakespeare's first biographer because his 1709 edition of Shakespeare's works included an ...
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Sep 28, 2024 · English writer who was the first to attempt a critical edition of the works of Shakespeare. Rowe succeeded Nahum Tate as poet laureate in 1715.
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Carefully researched and energetically written by the pioneering editor of the plays, Nicholas Rowe, himself one of the most distinguished tragedians of his age ...
As poet, playwright, and man of taste, Rowe was admirably fitted to introduce Shakespeare to a multitude of new readers. Relatively innocent of the technical ...
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Nicholas Rowe's Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear was published in 1709 as the preface to his pioneering edition of the plays. Rowe, together ...
He is best known as the editor of the First Collected Edition of Shakespeare's Works (Jacob Tonson, 6 vols. 1709) which provided the basis for all subsequent ...
Nicholas Rowe was the first editor of Shakespeare to prepare what we recognize as a modern edition: user-friendly, standardized in format.
Mar 2, 2017 · Nicholas Rowe was the first critical editor of the works, but he was not Shakespeare's first “biographer.” Neither Johnson, Steevens nor Malone ...