Harry Rowe (showman)

Harry Rowe (c. 1726–1799) was an English showman and puppeteer, now remembered as a satirical "emendator of Shakespeare" for a work that appeared under his name.

[2] He was an itinerant puppet showman, travelling in Scotland and the north of England, and he operated a summer theatre in York for many years.

The so-called "emendations" were intended to raise a laugh at the expense of scholarly commentators.

[4] In 1797 also appeared, in Rowe's name, No Cure No Pay; or the Pharmacopolist, a musical farce, York, in which sarcasm is levelled against empirics with diplomas, who are represented by Drs.

A copy of Rowe's Macbeth in the Boston Public Library contained some manuscript notes by its former owner Isaac Reed including an erroneous ascription of the annotations to Andrew Hunter.