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DIDO.
Last seen on: NY Times Crossword 10 Dec 19, Tuesday
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Dido, Queen of Carthage (full title: The Tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage) is a short play written by the English playwright Christopher Marlowe, with possible contributions by Thomas Nashe. It was probably written between 1587 and 1593, and was first published in 1594. The story focuses on the classical figure of Dido, the Queen of Carthage. It tells an intense dramatic tale of Dido and her fanatical love for Aeneas (induced by Cupid), Aeneas’ betrayal of her and her eventual suicide on his departure for Italy. The playwrights relied on Books 1, 2, and 4 of Virgil’s Aeneid as primary source.[citation needed]
Dido is based on books 1, 2 and 4 of The Aeneid, but the author makes several deviations from this material. Pigman draws attention to how imitators ‘exploit… the historical distance between a text and its model’, leading to ‘crucial departures from, sometimes criticisms of, the model’. Stump suggests that these changes in Dido, Queen of Carthage make a mockery of Aeneas. They notably include: