Synopsis

Britannicus

$16.99

Jean Racine adapt/trans Robert David MacDonald

Published by Absolute Classics

6 Male 3 Female

This political thriller, set in Rome at the beginning of Emperor Nero's tyranny, lays bare the relationships at the heart of power as a world slips into moral chaos

Includes an Introduction by director Nicholas Dromgoole

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