Penny Dreadfuls, 1602 · page 359 of 400
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# Page Description This is a page of running prose (page 337) from what appears to be an early modern dramatic or narrative work, not a Victorian penny dreadful as suggested. The text is a monologue by a character (Dido, addressing Aeneas) lamenting his departure from Carthage and his rejection of her love. She catalogs all she has sacrificed and offered him—her city, her wealth, her affection—and warns that his abandonment will be her death and bring shame upon them both. The language and typography are characteristic of sixteenth or seventeenth-century English printing, with archaic spelling and long paragraphs of ornate, emotional rhetoric rather than Victorian melodrama.
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