Langbeschreibung
Enthusiastically praised by Charles Lamb and A. C. Swinburne but unjustly neglected since the early twentieth century, Thierry and Theodoret dramatises events from medieval French history, and makes them particularly memorable by portraying the scariest villainess in early modern drama -- the unblinkingly evil Brunehaut, whose relentless pursuit of self-determination in the guise of unchecked sexual freedom leads her to plot the assassination of her two sons and a human sacrifice.