1st Edition

The Plays and Poems of Nicholas Rowe, Volume V Lucan’s Pharsalia (Books IV-X)

Edited By Stephen Bernard, Robin Sowerby Copyright 2017
316 Pages
by Routledge

316 Pages
by Routledge

Nicholas Rowe was the first Poet Laureate of the Georgian era. A fascinating and important yet largely overlooked figure in eighteenth-century literature, he is the ‘lost Augustan’. His plays are important both for the way they address the political and social concerns of the day and for reflecting a period in which the theatre was in crisis. This edition sets out to demonstrate Rowe’s mastery of... Read more

Lucan’s Pharsalia, Book IV edited by Robin Sowerby

Lucan’s Pharsalia, Book V edited by Robin Sowerby

Lucan’s Pharsalia, Book VI edited by Robin Sowerby

Lucan’s Pharsalia, Book VII edited by Robin Sowerby

Lucan’s Pharsalia, Book VIII edited by Robin Sowerby

Lucan’s Pharsalia, Book IX edited by Robin Sowerby

Lucan’s Pharsalia, Book X edited by Robin Sowerby

Textual apparatus of Lucan’s Pharsalia by Robin Sowerby

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Stephen Bernard, Robin Sowerby

"[T]he quality of the editorial work is uniformly excellent. The edition also includes a range of appendices containing a wealth of supplementary material including performance listings, prologues and epilogues, and, notably, all extant vocal music for Rowe’s dramas. The scores, beautifully edited by Joe Lockwood, are a significant contribution to our understanding of Rowe’s plays as the importance of music in Restoration and early eighteenth-century drama is often overlooked."

"...the very real contribution of this edition… illuminates Rowe’s literary career and, for the first time, establishes a scholarly text of his works."

- Jean L. Marsden, Review of English Studies