Nicholas Rowe (writer) 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" (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 from "The Impertinent Curious Man", a story within a story in Miguel de Cervantes' 1605 novel "Don Quixote". As a result of this play, the name became synonymous with a rake (womaniser). Calista is
Penitent thief album La buona novella, inspired by the New Testament apocrypha. The thief features also in Christian popular music, as in Christian rock band Third Day's 1995 song "Thief", and the name of the Christian rock band Dizmas. The thief also is the narrator in Sydney Carter's controversial song "Friday Morning". In several of Poul Anderson "Polesotechnic League" stories, Dismas is one of the saints the hero Nicholas van Rijn often swears by. In 2011, the Jesus Film Project and Campus Crusade for Christ released an anime style short film about the Penitent Thief entitled "My Last Day". In 2013, author