El Castillo de San Severino: im‡genes de historia

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In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...

La ciudad de Huéscar presentaba en el siglo XVI algunos caracteres que la hacían peculiar en el contexto del reino granadino. En primer lugar, era la única ciudad de señorío, concedida primero de forma vitalicia al condestable de Navarra, y, después, no sin resistencia de su oligarquía, a la casa de Alba. En segundo término, es de las pocas ciudades granadinas que desarrolló un enfrentamiento armado contra su señor en el levantamiento de las Comunidades castellanas. En tercer lugar, el juego de intereses entre grandes propietarios de rebaños de ovino (los "señores de ganados"),...

This study offers a profound study of Arrufat's play, using most recent critical trends concerning the performance aspect of the drama. It examines the genre of the drama and its relationship to the phenomenon of the Cuban Revolution, Arrufat as a Cuban playwright of the 60s and his re-writing of the Greek theme of the fratricidal fight in Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes. Also contains a recent interview with Arrufat in which he describes the social circumstances surrounding the play and some of his classical re-writing techniques.