Marlowe's Travesty of Virgil: Dido and Elizabethan Dreams of Empire.(Christopher Marlowe)(Critical Essay)

From: Comparative Drama | Date: March 22, 2000| Author: STUMP, DONALD | Copyright information

Several recent studies(1) of Christopher Marlowe's Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage, have focused on its relation to the development of English imperialism. Since the play represents a female ruler from North Africa who is brought down by her love for a male voyager intent on founding an imperial dynasty, the play invites studies of the politics of gender, nationality, and race. Lurking in the background, however, is also a political agenda of a more specific sort. As William God...

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