Dido, Queen of Carthage
Author: first_name: Christopher
last_name: Marlowe
first_name: Thomas
last_name: Nashe
Language: English
Year: 1825

Dido, Queen of Carthage is the earliest of Christopher Marlowe's known plays, possibly written while he was still a student at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge whose college library held a copy of Virgil's Aeneid, the principal source of the story. The play was co-authored by a fellow Cambridge undergraduate Thomas Nashe, although Nashe's contribution is now thought to have been a minor one. It was acted by the "Children of Her Maiestie's Chappell " around 1587.

The play tells of the tragi