scenicus; deinde poeta dramaticus tragicus, paucis inferior
Scripsit plurimas tragedias, sc. Tamerlane.-Tragedie of Dido
Queen of Carthage. Pr. Come gentle Ganymed. Hanc perfecit +
edidit Tho. Nash Lond. 1594. 4^to.--Petrarius in præfatione ad
Secundam partem Herois et Leandri multa in Marlovii
commendationem adfert; hoc etiam facit Tho. Nash in _Carmine
Elegiaco Tragidiæ Didonis præfiso in obitum Christop. Marlovii_,
ubi quatuor ejus tragidiarum mentionem facit, nec non et alterius
_de duce Guisio_." _Bib. Britan._ 1740.

I suspect M^r Warton had no other authority than this for saying
that this play was left imperfect by Marlowe, and completed +
published by Nashe; for it does not appear from the title page
that it was not written in conjunction by him + Marlowe in the
lifetime of the former. Perhaps Nashe's Elegy might ascertain
this point. Tanner had, I believe, no authority but Philipses,
for calling Marlowe an actor.

There was an old Latin play on the subject of Dido, written by
John Rightwise and played before Cardinal Wolsey + again before
Queen Elizabeth in 1564. There is also another Latin play on this
subject _Dido_, tragedia nova so quatuor pri*ibus ***
**************** Virgilii disampla Antwerp ed, 1559.




THE
Tragedie of Dido
_Queene of Carthage:_