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Nicholas Rowe (1674–1718)
Rowe, Nicholas. An English dramatist and poet-laureate; born at Little Barford, Bedfordshire, June 30?, 1674; died on Dec. 6, 1718. He was a successful courtier and politician, but is best known as the translator of Lucan’s ‘Pharsalia’ (1718), and the author of many successful plays, the most popular of which were the tragedies: ‘Tamerlane’ (1702); ‘The Fair Penitent’ (1703); ‘Jane Shore’ (1714); and ‘Lady Jane Grey’ (1715).