CALÍGULA. EL JUGUETE DE UN LOCO

Both cowardly and reckless, his immaturity means he relies on the advice of three figures on whom he depends emotionally and strategically: on the one hand, his two favourite women – his sister and mistress Drusilla and his former mistress Caesonia; and on the other, Incitatus, his horse. No action is taken without the advice of one of the three; no garment is donned, no journey embarked upon, without having been suggested by one of them. Gradually, he comes to relish power, but his fits of rage, his unbridled extravagance and his growing impiety erode his popularity.

His sister’s death accelerates his madness. His decrees and whims know no bounds; his cruelty is indiscriminate. Yet, curiously, it will be neither the Senate, which opposes him, nor the starving people, who fear him, that will put a stop to his plundering. His greatest enemy, the most powerful one, who will destroy him, will be none other than his own madness.

IN SPANISH