'Dido' puts in a rare appearance

Christopher Marlowe wrote ''Dido, Queen of Carthage," his ferociously brilliant blank-verse tragedy of Dido and Aeneas, in 1585. Yet because it's almost never staged in this country, says the English director Neil Bartlett, it seems like a brand-new play. (Full article: 1275 words)

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