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Roxana: A Play of Empire and Ruin
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ISBN13: 9798255127955
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 5 2026
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 5 2026
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What remains after conquest? Not the banners.
Not the proclamations. Not even the name that history repeats.
What remains is what was carried, endured, and erased. Roxana: A Play of Empire and Ruin enters the world of Alexander the Great not through the voice of the conqueror, but through the woman history placed beside him-and then quietly set aside. Daughter of a Bactrian nobleman, later queen, later survivor, Roxana stands at the intersection of empire and its cost. Through her, the play traces the arc from the fall of the Sogdian Rock to the fractured years following Alexander's death, where power shifts from certainty to suspicion, and survival becomes a form of intelligence. Structured in five acts with interludes, the play unfolds across battlefields, courts, and the private spaces where decisions are absorbed rather than declared. A recurring Kitchen Chorus-cooks, scribes, surgeons, and laborers-moves beneath the surface of events, recording what empires require but do not acknowledge: labor, hunger, injury, silence. Blending lyrical intensity with historical imagination, MM Williams constructs a world where love is never separate from strategy, where alliances are written in both wine and blood, and where the language of power must constantly negotiate with the body that bears it. This is not a retelling of empire.
Not the proclamations. Not even the name that history repeats.
What remains is what was carried, endured, and erased. Roxana: A Play of Empire and Ruin enters the world of Alexander the Great not through the voice of the conqueror, but through the woman history placed beside him-and then quietly set aside. Daughter of a Bactrian nobleman, later queen, later survivor, Roxana stands at the intersection of empire and its cost. Through her, the play traces the arc from the fall of the Sogdian Rock to the fractured years following Alexander's death, where power shifts from certainty to suspicion, and survival becomes a form of intelligence. Structured in five acts with interludes, the play unfolds across battlefields, courts, and the private spaces where decisions are absorbed rather than declared. A recurring Kitchen Chorus-cooks, scribes, surgeons, and laborers-moves beneath the surface of events, recording what empires require but do not acknowledge: labor, hunger, injury, silence. Blending lyrical intensity with historical imagination, MM Williams constructs a world where love is never separate from strategy, where alliances are written in both wine and blood, and where the language of power must constantly negotiate with the body that bears it. This is not a retelling of empire.
It is a reorientation. A play about proximity to power.
About what it means to be made into a solution. About the distance between what is recorded and what is lived. And, finally, about what survives when the story is finished telling itself.
About what it means to be made into a solution. About the distance between what is recorded and what is lived. And, finally, about what survives when the story is finished telling itself.
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