"Lothario" is also a character in Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795-96) and also in the play, "The Fair Penitent" (1703), by Nicholas Rowe, based on the earlier seventeenth-century play, "The Fatal Dowry" (which drew on Cervantes). In Rowe's play, Lothario is a libertine who seduces and betrays "Calista"; and its success is arguably the source for the proverbial nature of his name in subsequent English culture—as when Anthony Trollope wrote a century later of "the elegant fluency of a practised Lothario".