Christopher Marlowe

The Elizabethans & Jacobians

Dido, Queen of Carthage

BY
Josey De Rossi

There’s something quite brilliant about the way Ricky Duke deals with the realisation of poetic language in Dido Queen of Carthage. For me, he seems to work with the metaphors that characterise mythical places and peoples with a boldness of approach that is quite breathtaking.