I guess that old Nahum is famous for taking the sting out of dramatic situations, as with his re-write of King Lear. V's Dido arranges that from the time of the encounter in the other world A and his descendants will remember her with terrible guilt and foreboding, to be renewed rather than dispelled on the occasion of the fall of Carthage by Sc.Aemilianus' famous citation of Homer, linking the event with the historic fall of Troy and with fear for the future of Rome. - Martin Hughes
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Simon Cauchi wrote: > >Does Virgil actually put any such words into Dido's mouth (I tried to find > >such and failed)? > > No. It was Nahum Tate, who wrote the libretto for Purcell's _Dido and Aeneas_. > > Simon Cauchi > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. > Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message > "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You > can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
