The main themes in Nero are identity and masculinity. Emperor Nero, an effeminate, disturbed, and ultimately pathetic young man attempts to reform Rome’s traditional culture through artistic renaissance. Both allies and enemies malign his leadership: Nero struggles through a series of abandonments while his enemies work to depose him.
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Doyle has over five years of experience writing plays, with a focus on modernizing the language and dramatic styles of Elizabethan England. He has written both the one-act and full-length versions of The Tragedy of Nero, Emperor of Rome.
Doyle is currently developing three other one-act plays:
Erie, a 19th-century American riverboat comedy set on the Erie Canal,
Meghan & Harry, a modern pop-culture comedy about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s exit from the royal family,
And another Roman tragedy.