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) Nicholas Rowe (actor) Nicholas James Sebastian Rowe (born 22 November 1966) is an Scottish actor. At the commencement of his career he appeared as the lead in the cinema film "Young Sherlock Holmes" (1985). Rowe was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of English parents Alison, a singer, and Andrew Rowe, a Conservative Party Member of Parliament and editor. He received his formal education at Eton College, where he acted in school productions, and subsequently received a BA in Hispanic Studies from Bristol University. Rowe has appeared in a variety of cinema films, television dramas and plays. He played Sherlock