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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
1860: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town by the [[Royal Alfred Dramatic Club]] on 25 November, with ''[[The Irish Tutor]]'' (Butler) and a musical interlude by the brass orchestra of the [[59th Regiment]]. Announced as a "Grand Musical, Classical and Picturesque Extravaganza in One Act" by "Durnand".
 
 
1860: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town by the [[Royal Alfred Dramatic Club]] on 3 December with ''[[Who Do You Take Me For?]]'' (Morton.
 
 
1860: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town by the [[Royal Alfred Dramatic Club]] on 17 and 20 December with ''[[The Little Treasure and The Hundred Pound Note]]'' (Peake). The first performance was done as a benefit for Mrs Delmaine.
 
 
1860: Performed again, by special request,  in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town by the [[Royal Alfred Dramatic Club]] on 27 December with ''[[The Happy Man]]'' (Lover).
 
 
1861: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town by the [[Royal Alfred Dramatic Club]] on 10 January with ''[[Fra Diavolo, or The Beauty and the Brigands]]'' and ''[[A Night at Notting Hill]]'' (Yates and Harrington).
 
 
1861: Performed as part of "grand gala night" in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town by the [[Royal Alfred Dramatic Club]] on 23 February, with ''[[The Irish Tutor]]'' (Butler).
 
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 07:40, 3 September 2017

Dido, Queen of Carthage is a short play by Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)[1], with possible contributions by Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)[2].

The original text

The play was seemingly first performed by the Children of the Chapel sometime between 1587 and 1593. It was first published as The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage in 1594.

Translations and adaptations

The 18th-century English composer Stephen Storace wrote an opera titled Dido, Queen of Carthage (1794), but the only surviving text was lost in a fire in 1801.

What appears to have been a musical version of Dido, Queen of Carthage, listed as a "Grand Musical, Classical and Picturesque Extravaganza in One Act"attributed to "Burnand" was performed in Cape Town in the 1860-1861. It was most probably a performance of the "New and Original Extravaganza" called Dido, the Celebrated Widow by Francis Cowley Burnand. First performed at the Royalty Theatre , London, . Published in as Lacy's acting edition by T.H. Lacy in 1865.

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dido,_Queen_of_Carthage_(play)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Marlowe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Nashe


F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.


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