A Woman Scorn'd

"Dido and Aeneas" has been one of the most compelling of the great classical myths. The material the story offers has led artists and authors throughout the centuries to appropriate - and misappropriate - the story for artistic and political ends. This book examines the myth itself and the way in which it has been re-interpreted by later authors.

Auteur
Michael Burden was Lecturer in Music at New College, Oxford, from 1989, and since1995 has been Fellow in Opera Studies at New College. He is also Dean of New College, and director of New Chamber Opera. His research interests are centred on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century music, particularly English opera, twentieth-century music theatre.