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The title ''[[Dido, Queen of Carthage]]'' has been used to refer to any of three texts over the years: 

# '''''[[The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage]]''''' is a short play by Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Marlowe] (with possible contributions by Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Nashe]). It is at times referred to simply as  ''[[Dido, Queen of Carthage]]''. (''For more details on Marlowe's play, see the entry under ''[[The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage]]'')
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# ''[[Dido, Queen of Carthage]]'', an opera by the 18th-century English composer Stephen Storace (1762-1796)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Storace], with a libretto by Prince Hoare (1755-1834)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Hoare_(younger)], based on the libretto for a three act opera seria called ''Didone abbandonata'' (1724) by Pietro Metastasio. First performed in 1794. However, the only surviving text was lost in a fire in 1801. 
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# '''''[[Dido, the Celebrated Widow]]''''', a [[burlesque]] version of the story of Dido  by Francis Cowley Burnand (1836–1917)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._C._Burnand] (1860). It is at times referred to simply as  ''[[Dido, The Queen of Carthage]]'',  '''''[[Dido, The Queen of Carthage]]''''' or sometimes even simply ''[[Dido]]''. (''For more details on Burnand's play, see the entry under '''''[[Dido, the Celebrated Widow]]''''')
 
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As far as can be determined to date, only the Burnand version has been performed in South Africa.

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