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At a country manor, the return of Olga Petrovna and her husband should delight Kuzovkin, the penniless gentleman resident, but his friend Ivanov fears trouble. A wealthy neighbor who enjoys humiliating his social inferiors turns a celebratory lunch into a drunken confrontation that exposes a family secret, leaving Kuzovkin with renewed security but damaged honor.
A six-play cycle, performed in two groups of three and narrated by Cicero's slave and freedman Tiro, follows Cicero's rise, exile, return, conflict with Caesar and efforts to preserve the Roman Republic through his execution.
A fictionalized biography follows Thomas Cromwell's rapid rise at the court of Henry VIII from 1500 to 1535, through the political upheavals surrounding the death of Thomas More.
At a country manor, the return of Olga Petrovna and her husband should delight Kuzovkin, the penniless gentleman resident, but his friend Ivanov fears trouble. A wealthy neighbor who enjoys humiliating his social inferiors turns a celebratory lunch into a drunken confrontation that exposes a family secret, leaving Kuzovkin with renewed security but damaged honor.
A six-play cycle, performed in two groups of three and narrated by Cicero's slave and freedman Tiro, follows Cicero's rise, exile, return, conflict with Caesar and efforts to preserve the Roman Republic through his execution.
A fictionalized biography follows Thomas Cromwell's rapid rise at the court of Henry VIII from 1500 to 1535, through the political upheavals surrounding the death of Thomas More.