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Fairy Tales & Folklore

The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage

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    Christopher Marlowe's The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage is a folklore and fairy tales play.

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    About The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage

    "The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage" by Christopher Marlowe is a play written between 1587 and 1593. Based on Virgil's Aeneid, it dramatizes the passionate tale of Dido, Queen of Carthage, whose love for the Trojan hero Aeneas is ignited by Cupid's arrow. As divine forces manipulate mortal hearts and destinies collide, Aeneas must choose between love and his fated journey to Italy, leaving devastation in his wake.
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    Themes, setting & tropes

    Genres

    Subjects

    • Tragedies, Drama
    • Dido, Drama
    • Queens, Carthage, Extinct city, Drama

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    The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage was written by Christopher Marlowe.

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    It is usually shelved as Fairy Tales & Folklore.

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