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Title: The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage

Author: Christopher Marlowe

Release Date: July 1, 2005 [EBook #16169]

Language: English

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The Tudor Facsimile Texts

The Tragedy of
Dido Queen of Carthage

Written by
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE and THOMAS NASH

1594

_Date of this the earliest known edition_.... 1594

[_Bodleian_]

_Reproduced in Facsimile_.... 1914

The Tudor Facsimile Texts

_Under the Supervision and Editorship of_
JOHN S. FARMER

The Tragedy of
Dido Queen of Carthage

Written by
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE and THOMAS NASH

1594

_Issued for Subscribers by the Editor of_

THE TUDOR FACSIMILE TEXTS

MCMXIV

The Tragedy of
Dido Queen of Carthage

Written by CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE and THOMAS NASH

1594

_This play is facsimiled from the Bodley copy. Other examples
(says Sir Sidney Lee, but unrecorded by Greg) are at Bridgewater
House and at Chatsworth; the Devonshire Collection of Plays has
recently been disposed of to an American collector_.

_For other and bibliographical details see D.N.B. I have
included in this facsimile the page of manuscript in the Bodley
example inasmuch as it contains matter of interest to the
student._

_The reproduction from the original was made by The Clarendon
Press, Oxford_.

_JOHN S. FARMER_.

[Transcriber's Note: The following paragraphs have been
transcribed from a handwritten page. Some text is illegible, and
this has been marked with asterisks where appropriate.]

The tragedy of _Dido_ is one of the scarcest plays in the English
language. There are but two copies known to be extant; in the
possession of D^r Wright and M^r Reed.

M^r Warton speaks in his _Hist. of Eng. Poet_ (III. p. 435) of an
Elegy being prefixed to it on the death of Marlowe; but no such
is found in either of those copies. In answer to my inquiries on
this subjec