{"product_id":"dido-queen-of-carthage-by-christopher-marlowe-paperback","title":"Dido, Queen of Carthage: By Christopher Marlowe - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRuth Lunney\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first single-text scholarly edition in English. An indispensable resource for scholars, students, and theatre practitioners. Edited by Ruth Lunney.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA city burns, and a queen burns for love: \u003ci\u003eDido, Queen of Carthage\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis Revels Plays volume is the first single-text scholarly edition of \u003ci\u003eDido\u003c\/i\u003e in English. It is an indispensable resource for scholars, students, and theatre practitioners. \u003ci\u003eDido\u003c\/i\u003e's time has come, with accelerating interest, critical and theatrical, in the play. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe edition features an accessible text, lightly punctuated for ease in reading and speaking, with spelling more consistently modernised. The introduction gives the first comprehensive account of the play since M.E. Smith's 1977 monograph, locating \u003ci\u003eDido\u003c\/i\u003e within its theatrical, pedagogical, literary, political, and cultural contexts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDido\u003c\/i\u003e is here considered on its own terms, as a 1580s play intended for children to perform, but also as a play of multiple possibilities that speaks to the present. The edition incorporates new research into authorship (which indicates that Marlowe wrote the play), as well as a detailed analysis of \u003ci\u003eDido\u003c\/i\u003e's sources. It includes a survey of criticism and considers the implications of writing for performance; it assesses the evidence for early performances and provides extensive information about modern productions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDido\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable play. In its own time, it was revolutionary, featuring a dominant female role, experimental blank verse, and a refusal to moralise. And soon thereafter, as Laurie Maguire and Emma Smith propose, \u003ci\u003eDido\u003c\/i\u003e became 'the play Shakespeare could not forget'.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuth Lunney is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Australia\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 03, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697368891527,"sku":"9781526191175","price":63.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/TOkRavRrJH9781526191175.webp?v=1767408910","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/dido-queen-of-carthage-by-christopher-marlowe-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}