Nicholas Rowe (writer) said to have suggested to Samuel Richardson the character of Clarissa Harlowe, as Lothario suggested Lovelace. Samuel Johnson noted of "The Fair Penitent" that, "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" (1706). According to Johnson, this play was to share the fate of many such plays based on mythological heroes, as, "We have been
Nicholas Rowe (actor) Holmes in Barry Levinson's cinema film "Young Sherlock Holmes", having read for the part whilst still at school. He returned to the role of Sherlock Holmes 30 years later, in the 2015 film "Mr. Holmes", in which he played the part in a film that the "real" Mr Holmes, now a 93-year-old (played by Ian McKellen) goes to see at a theatre. Rowe was the partner of Lou Gish for six years until her death from cancer in February 2006. Nicholas Rowe (actor) Nicholas James Sebastian Rowe (born 22 November 1966) is an Scottish actor. At the commencement of his