Dido, Queen of Carthage (play) is presumed to have been lost in the 1809 Drury Lane Theatre fire, since nothing of it has survived. An adaptation of the play was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 30 May 1993, the 400th anniversary of Marlowe's death, along with "The Massacre at Paris", directed by Alan Drury and Michael Earley and featuring Sally Dexter as Dido, Timothy Walker as Aeneas, Jeremy Blake as Iarbas, Ben Thomas as Achates, Teresa Gallagher as Anna/Juno and Andrew Wincott as Cupid. Dido, Queen of Carthage (play) Dido, Queen of Carthage (full title: The Tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage) is a
Dido twelve times in his plays: four times in "The Tempest", albeit all in one dialogue, twice in "Titus Andronicus", and also in "Henry VI Part 2", "Antony and Cleopatra", "Hamlet", "Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream," and most famously in "The Merchant of Venice", in Lorenzo's and Jessica's mutual wooing: In 1794 Germany, Charlotte von Stein wrote her own drama named "Dido", with an autobiographical element - as von Stein had been forsaken by her own lover, the famous Goethe, in a manner which she found reminiscent of Aeneas. Even today, Dido appears in Sid Meier's strategy games "Civilization