A faithful portrayal of
Alexander the Great; his great ambitions, his insatiable
conquering desires, exploration into his phsycolgy and his
relationships with his family, his desperate longing for
his father's love, anxiety self doubt
inevitably the author
has been compelled by the demands of dramatic form to occasionaly
ignore the historical order fo events and yet Rattigan maintains
a high degree of historical accuracy and stays true to the
important facts and their implications about Alexander,
The play's power to show us a man whom we can remember as
much for what he was as for what he did.
