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Nicholas Rowe
writer
- Born:
- 1674-06-20, Little Barford, Bedfordshire, England
- Died:
- 1718
- Professions:
- writer
Biography
On a summer day in 1674—20 June to be exact—Nicholas Rowe drew his first breath in the tiny riverside village of Little Barford, Bedfordshire. A poet and dramatist rather than a camera-era celebrity, he nevertheless lent his name to the silent-film era: two 1910s shorts, Jane Shore (1911 and 1912), and the 1915 melodrama The Eternal Strife, were spun from his eighteenth-century stage successes. Rowe’s own curtain fell in 1718, but the ink he laid down centuries earlier briefly flickered to life again on the early silver screen.
