Horatio comes with the melancholy information of Sciolto's being mortally wounded; which hurries Calista into the tremendous act of suicide; an ex|ample Altamont seems inclined to follow, but for the prevention of his friend; Calista lives to re|ceive the blessing of her expiring father, which is extended also to Horatio and his son; Calista makes some attonement to her husband with her last breath; Altamont declares an indifference for life, and Ho|ratio concludes the piece by rhiming forth an evi|dent and very excellent moral. a b c d e f g "Samuel Johnson's Life of Nicholas Rowe". Archived from the original on 11 October 2004 . Retrieved 24 February 2006. Mr. MOSSOP, with an excellent voice, and a very just idea of his author's meaning, was nevertheless un|couth; painfully sententious when calm, ungen|teely violent when warm, offensively consequential in deportment, abominably austere in feature, full of disagreeable consequence, and moved methodically by the affected rules of premeditate deportment; yet he too had his numerous admirers.

Guilt is the source of sor|row," the author has shewn himself well acquaint|ed with conscious feelings by making the lady kin|dle at the word guilt; it being certain, that those who have done ill are most ready to catch at the im|putation of it; Horatio seizes this opportunity to press the matter closer, which only serving more to inflame Calista's rage, he, at length, as a proof of his assertion shews her the letter to Lothario; una|ble to resist so palpable a conviction, she tries a very natural effort of female policy, which is by tearing the letter, to disarm him at least of po|sitive proof. sentiments and nature are again injured by simile and rhime; though had the latter been avoided, the former might have passed without objection, nay perhaps with some degree of praise. The word fond in the last line is not of very ob|vious meaning, unless to those who know, that in Yorkshire and some other parts of England, it im|plies silly; even in this sense, we think, either the epithet of foul or base tales would have suited pre|meditate scandal much better.The future Poet Laureate was educated first at Highgate School, and then at Westminster School under the guidance of Richard Busby. In 1688, Rowe became a King's Scholar, which was followed by his entrance into Middle Temple in 1691. [2] His entrance into Middle Temple was decided upon by his father, who felt that Rowe had made sufficient progress to qualify him to study law. While at Middle Temple, he read statutes and reports with proficiency proportionate to the force of his mind, which was already such that he endeavoured to comprehend law, not as a series of precedents, or collection of positive precepts, but as a system of rational government and impartial justice. [4] In the progress of this altercation, Horatio shews himself not only a man of real courage, but also the active, warm friend; nor does Lothario fall The Fair Penitent is Nicholas Rowe's stage adaptation of the tragedy - or- -The Fatal Dowry, the Philip Massinger and Nathananiel Field collaboration first published in 1632. The genius of ROWE seemed to consist in rich|ness of fancy, purity of language, justness of images, and harmony of numbers; but was undoubtedly too poetical for the drama, of which every piece he wrote, as well as this, is an evident proof; indeed, the absurd manner of theatrical speaking in his time might lead him to monotony in composition, and jingling rhimes at the end of acts; the only

The play was revived at both of the major London theatres of the era, Drury Lane and Covent Garden; the former production starred Mrs. Siddons as Calista. The 1703 first edition was dedicated to the Duchess of Ormond—but did not credit the original authors of The Fatal Dowry, leading to later critics' accusations of plagiarism against Rowe, as in William Gifford's edition of Massinger's works.

Nicholas Rowe was born in Little Barford, Bedfordshire, England, son of John Rowe (d. 1692), barrister and sergeant-at-law, and Elizabeth, daughter of Jasper Edwards, on 20 June 1674. [2] [3] His family possessed a considerable estate at Lamerton in Devonshire. His father practised law and published Benlow's and Dallison's Reports during the reign of King James II. [4] Calista's desperation at his fall, and the irresista|ble proof of her own guilt, is a natural effect of strong passions; Altamont's immediate confession of forgiveness, shews him to have at least as much weakness as humanity; the voice of Sciolto heard from without, strikes his daughter with a fresh de|gree of confusion; upon the old man's entrance, the traces of blood alarm suspicion in him, which being confirmed by what Altamont replies, his fu|ry Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference Some Acount of the Life &c. of Mr. William Shakespear". Archived from the original on 23 July 2008 . Retrieved 21 December 2011.