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Dido’s Tragedy
Author: Richard Gaskin
language: en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date: 2025-11-26
Dido’s Tragedy is a literary commentary, highly original in both form and content, on the Latin text of Virgil’s Aeneid, Book 4, which concerns the love affair between Dido and Aeneas and its tragic denouement. A substantial introduction discusses the book’s historical and literary context and provides a detailed analysis of its connections with the genre of tragedy, the role of the supernatural, the characterization of Dido and Aeneas, and the nature and development of their relationship. For the commentary the Latin text is divided into manageable excerpts, each being accompanied by a translation and a bespoke literary essay; there is also an extensive bibliography. The literary essays examine points of interest in each excerpt and relate these to the themes highlighted in the introduction; frequent reference is made to other classical works, to relevant texts in the European literary tradition, to other Virgilian commentaries from Servius onwards, and to recent secondary literature on Dido, Virgil, and tragedy. Readers are provided with plenty of signposts to help them investigate questions that interest them. The text of Aeneid 4 contains some notorious interpretative cruces: the commentary discusses these problematic passages in detail, fitting them into an overall interpretation of the book and of the Aeneid as a whole.
Dido's Daughters
Author: Margaret W. Ferguson
language: en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date: 2007-11-01
Winner of the 2004 Book Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and the 2003 Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature from the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference. Our common definition of literacy is the ability to read and write in one language. But as Margaret Ferguson reveals in Dido's Daughters, this description is inadequate, because it fails to help us understand heated conflicts over literacy during the emergence of print culture. The fifteenth through seventeenth centuries, she shows, were a contentious era of transition from Latin and other clerical modes of literacy toward more vernacular forms of speech and writing. Fegurson's aim in this long-awaited work is twofold: to show that what counted as more valuable among these competing literacies had much to do with notions of gender, and to demonstrate how debates about female literacy were critical to the emergence of imperial nations. Looking at writers whom she dubs the figurative daughters of the mythological figure Dido—builder of an empire that threatened to rival Rome—Ferguson traces debates about literacy and empire in the works of Marguerite de Navarre, Christine de Pizan, Elizabeth Cary, and Aphra Behn, as well as male writers such as Shakespeare, Rabelais, and Wyatt. The result is a study that sheds new light on the crucial roles that gender and women played in the modernization of England and France.
Dido
Virtually unheard of in the UK just 12 months ago, Dido Armstrong has achieved superstar status at a pace unparalleled in recent times. With just one one album to her name, she's managed to capture the imagination of millions of fans world-wide and top charts on a global scale. Set to be one of the most important and successful artist of the new millennium, a new album is already planned an an extensive world tour now underway. This is the first book on Dido, publication is tied in with her world tour and xmas single and wide review coverage is expected in the music press.
