Dido, Queen of Carthage - Free Audiobook

LibriVox recording of Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe; Thomas Nashe.

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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 tragic love affair between Dido, Queen of Carthage, and Aeneas, a survivor from the destruction of Troy who is voyaging to Italy to build a new city. When Aeneas and his men are driven ashore near Carthage he and Dido fall in love and plan to marry. But Hermes, the messenger of the Gods, reminds Aeneas of his divinely decreed mission to found Rome.

(Summary by Alan Mapstone)

Dido, Queen of Carthage: Michele Eaton

Aeneas: Greg Giordano

Jupiter: Beeswaxcandle

Ganymede: ShrimpPhish

Venus: dc

Cupid: ShrimpPhish

Juno: Jessie Percival

Hermes: Beeswaxcandle

Ascanius: Inkell

Anna: Hannah Lake

Achates: Hallow Orbiter

Ilioneus: Todd HW

Iarbas: Larry Wilson

Cloanthus: Cavaet

Sergestus: Priamedes

Nurse: Winnifred Assmann

A Lord: Wayne Cook

Narration: Alan Mapstone

Editor (acts 1,2 5): Alan Mapstone

Editor (acts 3&4): Inkell

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