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Dido, Queen of Carthage: by Christopher Marlowe

By Ruth Lunney (Editor)
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By Ruth Lunney (Editor)
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A city burns, and a queen burns for love: Dido, Queen of Carthage re-imagines one of the great legendary stories. The encounter between a wandering hero and an African queen engenders love and loss, eroticism and absurdity, childish simplicity and compelling eloquence. Written for children to perform in the 1580s, Dido is nonetheless a remarkable play, revolutionary in its approach to character, blank verse, and audiences.
This volume is the first single-text scholarly edition in English. It...

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LiteratureDramaLiterary CriticismGeneral & Miscellaneous Literary CriticismEnglish DramaModern LiteratureEnglish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh dramaLiterature, Modern->15th and 16th centuries->History and criticism