Ambitious Step-Mother. A Tragedy. As acted at the Theatres Royal.

Ambitious Step-Mother. A Tragedy. As acted at the Theatres Royal.(1761) ---AND--- Tamberlane: A Tragedy. Written by N. Rowe, Esq. (1735) ---AND--- Fair Penitent. A Tragedy written by Nicholas Rowe, Esq. (1735) ---AND--- Biter. A Comedy. Written by N. Rowe, Esq. (1732)

Author: Rowe, Nicholas

16mo.(3.75" x 6.25") 4 books bound as 1. 1732-61. Rowe, Nicholas. London: J. Tonson and Ann and Charles Corbett. Full brown contemporary calf. Spine with five faded gilt rule creating compartments, gilt author/title to fancy gilt rule framed black leather to second compartment, gilt vol# to third. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with loss (see pic). Head and foot of spine chipped, with loss. Two titles have engraved frontispieces and title pages in black and red.

From Wiki: Nicholas Rowe (/roʊ/; 20 June 1674 – 6 December 1718[2]) was an English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1715. His plays and poems were well-received during his lifetime, with one of his translations described as one of the greatest productions in English poetry. He was also considered the first editor of the works of William Shakespeare. The Ambitious Stepmother, Rowe's first play, produced in 1700 at Lincoln's Inn Fields by Thomas Betterton and set in Persepolis, was well received. This was followed in 1701 by Tamerlane. In this play the conqueror Timur represented William III, and Louis XIV is denounced as Bajazet. It was for many years regularly acted on the anniversary of William's landing at Torbay. In Dublin in 1712, at a time when political passions were running high, the performance provoked a serious riot. The Fair Penitent (1702, published 1703), an adaptation of Massinger and Field's The Fatal Dowry, was pronounced by Samuel Johnson as one of the most pleasing tragedies ever written in English. It featured the character of Lothario, whose name, as a result of this play, became synonymous with a rake (womanizer). Calista is said to have suggested to Samuel Richardson the character of Clarissa Harlowe, as Lothario suggested Lovelace. Samuel Johnson noted of The Fair Penitent, "The story is domestic, and therefore easily received by the imagination, and assimilated to common life; the diction is exquisitely harmonious, and soft or spritely as occasion requires." In 1704, Rowe tried his hand at comedy, producing The Biter at Lincoln's Inn Fields, which was unsuccessful, and Rowe returned to tragedy in Ulysses (1705). According to Johnson, this play was to share the fate of many such plays based on mythological heroes, as, "We have been too early acquainted with the poetical heroes to expect any pleasure from their revival"

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