{"product_id":"roxana-mm-williams-9798255127955","title":"Roxana: A Play of Empire and Ruin","description":"What remains after conquest? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNot the banners.\u003cbr\u003eNot the proclamations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNot even the name that history repeats.\u003cbr\u003eWhat remains is what was carried, endured, and erased. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoxana: A Play of Empire and Ruin\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStructured 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBlending 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is not a retelling of empire.\u003cbr\u003eIt is a reorientation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA play about proximity to power.\u003cbr\u003eAbout what it means to be made into a solution. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAbout the distance between what is recorded and what is lived. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd, finally, about what survives when the story is finished telling itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e MM Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798255127955\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/05\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 114\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d","brand":"MM Williams","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172585971967,"sku":"9798255127955","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/roxana-mm-williams-9798255127955","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}