ABSTRACT
Rowe seems to have written with two audiences in mind: his plays he wrote for posterity, albeit out of commercial – performance and print – considerations, but his poetry – with the singular exceptions of the ode to Godolphin and Lucan’s Pharsalia – he wrote to the moment. It has therefore been decided to take as copy texts for the plays the last lifetime editions of each, and for the poetry the first lifetime editions of each – and the first posthumous edition of the Pharsalia.
