| Dido Queen of Carthage |
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![]() Title page, 1594 |
| Written by | Christopher Marlowe |
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| Characters | Dido
Aeneas |
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| Original language | English |
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| Genre | Tragedy |
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| Setting | Carthage |
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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.
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