Versions

Folger Encodings:
Version 3.0; 07/21/2017
Version 3.0; original spelling
Version 2.0; 03/23/2017
Version 2.0; original spelling
Version 1.0; 11/09/2016
SHC encoding:
EEBO-TCP encoding:
Encoding path:
Call number:
Microfilm reel:
STC / 853:06

Bibliography

STC/Wing:
STC 17441
ESTC:
Greg:
128a
DEEP:
Wiggins:
820

Playbook

Title Page

Title:

THE Tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage

Author(s):

Christopher Marlowe, and Thomas Nash. Gent.

Performance statement:

Played by the Children of her Maiesties Chappell. ... Actors [in double columns] Iupiter. Ascanius. | Ganimed. Dido. | Venus. Anna. | Cupid. Achates. | Iuno. Ilioneus. | [following character fills two lines in column 1] Mercurie, or Hermes. Iarbas. | Cloanthes. | Æneas. Sergestus.

Imprint:

AT LONDON, Printed, by the Widdowe Orwin, for Thomas Woodcocke, and are to be solde at his shop, in Paules Church-yeard, at the signe of the blacke Beare. 1594.

General Title Page

Internal Title Page

Title page company(s):
Title page theater(s):
Title page date:

1594

Stationer Information

Location:
Printer(s):
Uncertain: 
No
Publisher(s):
Uncertain: 
No
Bookseller(s):
Uncertain: 
No

Physical Description

Format:
Paratextual materials:
CHARACTER LIST: on title page [A1r]
Title page imaged from Folger call number: STC 17441. Image is not from the transcribed copy.

Performance

First performance:

[c.1585–1586; possibly 1591]

First performed by:

Notes

Wiggins suggests a best-guess creation date of 1588; range 1587–90.