Dido, Queen of Carthage (play) She brings Aeneas back, who denies he intended to leave. Dido forgives him, but as a precaution removes all the sails and tackle from his ships. She also places Ascanius in the custody of the Nurse, believing that Aeneas will not leave without him. However, "Ascanius" is really the disguised Cupid. Dido says that Aeneas will be king of Carthage and anyone who objects will be executed. Aeneas agrees and plans to build a new city to rival Troy and strike back at the Greeks. Mercury appears with the real Ascanius (a.k.a. Cupid) and informs Aeneas that his destiny is
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