Dido Queen of Carthage facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Dido Queen of Carthage |
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Title page, 1594
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| Written by | Christopher Marlowe |
| Characters | Dido Aeneas |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | Tragedy |
| Setting | Carthage |
Dido Queen of Carthage is a play by Christopher Marlowe. It is a tragedy. The date of the play is uncertain. It is probably Marlowe's first play, and possibly written while he was a student at Cambridge University. The source material was Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's Heroides. Unlike his sources however, Marlowe emphasizes not the character of Aeneas but the character of Dido.
- Cheney, Patrick (Ed.) 2004. The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe. Cambridge University Press. p. 193.
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