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Dido Queen of Carthage is a short play written by the English playwright Christopher Marlowe with possible contributions by Thomas Nashe. The story of the play 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 depended upon Books 1 2 and 4 of the Aeneid of Virgil as their main source.
