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- # Rowe’s text.
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This is a section titled "Rowe’s text," extracted from a larger chapter on Shakespeare's play *Pericles*. It discusses Nicholas Rowe's critical edition of Shakespeare's works and his treatment of *Pericles*. The section spans lines 14124 to 14135 in the source file.
## Context
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This section focuses on Nicholas Rowe's edition of Shakespeare's works, specifically his handling of the play *Pericles*. It mentions that Rowe based his text on the Fourth Folio and included *Pericles* and six spurious plays in his 1709 and 1714 works. Rowe attempted to distinguish verse from prose and made some verbal emendations, but did not significantly elucidate the text. The section also notes that later eighteenth-century writers like Pope and others excluded *Pericles* from their editions, while Theobald studied it carefully, as evidenced by manuscript notes in copies of the 1630 and 1635 editions.
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- Nicholas Rowe, in his first critical edition of Shakespeare’s Rowe’s text.
The concluding section of the volume consists of fifty leaves, irregularly signed, thus:—*, **, ***, ***, in fours; ¶A, ¶B, in sixes; ¶C—¶F, in fours; ¶G, six leaves.
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works of 1709 (as well as in the reissue of 1714), based his text on that of the Fourth Folio and included *Pericles* and the six spurious pieces. Rowe attempted for the first time to distinguish the verse from the prose, and he made a few verbal emendations. But he did not go far in the elucidation of the text. Pope and the chief eighteenth-century writers excluded *Pericles*, together with the spurious plays, from their editions of Shakespeare’s works. Although Theobald did not reprint the piece in his edition of Shakespeare (1733), he was a careful student of it, as manuscript notes by him in extant copies of the 1630 and 1635 editions amply show (see Nos. XLIX and LXV *infra*).
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