Dido Queen of Carthage

<p>A city burns and a queen burns for love: <i>Dido Queen of Carthage</i> 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 <i>Dido</i> is nonetheless a remarkable play revolutionary in its approach to character blank verse and audiences.<br>This volume is the first single-text scholarly edition in English. It is an indispensable resource for scholars students and theatre practitioners.<br>The edition features an accessible text lightly punctuated for ease of reading and speaking. It incorporates new research into authorship (which indicates that Marlowe wrote the play) a detailed analysis of <i>Dido</i>'s sources and a survey of criticism; it assesses the evidence for early performances and provides extensive information about modern productions.</p>