What is Dido Queen of Carthage?
{{Infobox play | name = Dido Queen of Carthage | image = Dido1594titlepage.jpg | image_size = 220px | caption = Title page, 1594 | writer = [[Christopher Marlowe]] | sources = ''The Aeneid'' by [[Virgil]]<br />''Heroides'' by [[Ovid]] | characters = Dido<br />Aeneas | setting = Carthage | premiere = | place = | orig_lang = English | subject = | genre = [[Tragedy]] }} '''''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. ==References== * Cheney, Patrick (Ed.) 2004. ''The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe''. [[Cambridge University Press]]. p. 193. {{lit-stub}} [[Category:Plays by Christopher Marlowe]] [[Category:1590s plays]]