Produced by Clare Boothby, Clare Elliott and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net The Tudor Facsimile Texts The Tragedy of Dido Queen of Carthage Written by CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE and THOMAS NASH 1594 _Date of this the earliest known edition_.... 1594 [_Bodleian_] _Reproduced in Facsimile_.... 1914 The Tudor Facsimile Texts _Under the Supervision and Editorship of_ JOHN S. FARMER The Tragedy of Dido Queen of Carthage Written by CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE and THOMAS NASH 1594 _Issued for Subscribers by the Editor of_ THE TUDOR FACSIMILE TEXTS MCMXIV The Tragedy of Dido Queen of Carthage Written by CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE and THOMAS NASH 1594 _This play is facsimiled from the Bodley copy. Other examples (says Sir Sidney Lee, but unrecorded by Greg) are at Bridgewater House and at Chatsworth; the Devonshire Collection of Plays has recently been disposed of to an American collector_. _For other and bibliographical details see D.N.B. I have included in this facsimile the page of manuscript in the Bodley example inasmuch as it contains matter of interest to the student._ _The reproduction from the original was made by The Clarendon Press, Oxford_. _JOHN S. FARMER_. [Transcriber's Note: The following paragraphs have been transcribed from a handwritten page. Some text is illegible, and this has been marked with asterisks where appropriate.] The tragedy of _Dido_ is one of the scarcest plays in the English language. There are but two copies known to be extant; in the possession of D^r Wright and M^r Reed. M^r Warton speaks in his _Hist. of Eng. Poet_ (III. p. 435) of an Elegy being prefixed to it on the death of Marlowe; but no such is found in either of those copies. In answer to my inquiries on this subject he informed me by letter, [crossed-out text] that a copy of this play was in Osborne's catalogue in the year 1754, that he then saw it in his shop (together with several of M^r Oldys's books that Osborne had purchased), + that the elegy in question--"on Marlowe's untimely death" was inserted immediately after the title page; that it mentioned a play of Marlowe's entitled _The Duke of Guise_ and four others; but whether particularly by _name_, he could not recollect. Unluckily he did not purchase this rare piece, + it is now God knows where.