TY - JOUR
T1 - When did Marlowe write Dido, Queen of Carthage?
AU - Wiggins, M.
N1 - Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2008/9
Y1 - 2008/9
N2 - This essay disputes the traditional assumption that Dido, Queen of Carthage was Marlowes first play. Little of the previous commentary on the issue has been grounded in the evidence, and scholars have tended to want to disbelieve one or other of the 1594 title pages direct statements about the plays origins. The essay demonstrates that the play was not written for academic performance at Cambridge, as is sometimes contended, and proposes that the likeliest interpretation of the evidence would place Dido after the Tamburlaine plays, and close to the composition of Doctor Faustus in 1588.
AB - This essay disputes the traditional assumption that Dido, Queen of Carthage was Marlowes first play. Little of the previous commentary on the issue has been grounded in the evidence, and scholars have tended to want to disbelieve one or other of the 1594 title pages direct statements about the plays origins. The essay demonstrates that the play was not written for academic performance at Cambridge, as is sometimes contended, and proposes that the likeliest interpretation of the evidence would place Dido after the Tamburlaine plays, and close to the composition of Doctor Faustus in 1588.
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U2 - 10.1093/res/hgn104
DO - 10.1093/res/hgn104
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:62949126172
SN - 0034-6551
VL - 59
SP - 521
EP - 541
JO - The Review of English Studies
JF - The Review of English Studies
IS - 241
ER -