2019/01/15 by Darren Freebury-Jones, Marcus Dahl · 4 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Art #Biology #Botany #DIDO #History #Lexicography and Language Studies #Linguistics #Literature #Philosophy #Phraseology #Queen (butterfly) #Second Language Acquisition and Learning #Translation Studies and Practices #Vocabulary
paper · doi:10.1093/llc/fqz008
published in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 35(2), 296-306 (Oxford University Press)
openalex publication_date 2019/01/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Abstract The title page of the 1594 Quarto text of Dido, Queen of Carthage assigns the play to two authors: Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe. Some scholars, such as J. P. Collier, F. G. Fleay, Alexander Grosart, Tucker Brooke, and Thomas Merriam, have argued that Marlowe and Nashe co-authored the play, or that Nashe added significant material to Marlowe’s text. This article assesses the internal evidence for Nashe’s hand in the play by examining its prosody, vocabulary, phraseology, rhyming habits, and stage directions in comparison to works ascribed to Nashe and Marlowe. The article also explores different modes of collaboration, such as the possibility that Nashe helped to plot, revise, or edit the play.