Las Hermanas

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Los festejos por el Centenario de la Patria han convertido a 1910 en uno de los años más extraordinarios de nuestro pasado. Daniel Balmaceda se sumerge en aquel año para contarnos cómo fue el nacimiento de los taxímetros, las ambulancias, los molinetes, y hasta de un aparato para establecer si un determinado amor será correspondido.

El marco jurídico reservado a Ultramar desde la Constitución de 1837-el sistema de legislación especial-dio pie a la intervención sucesiva de diversas corporaciones a las que con gran alharaca se encomendó resolver la cuestión de fondo acerca del alcance de esas leyes especiales. Trataron de las refromas sendas Comisiones Regias, por als Antillas en 1838 y para Filipinas en 1862, y se abrió un proceso de información sobre la preparación de las bases de la legislación especial para Cuba y Puerto Rico, tres años más tarde. En 1869, un nuevo cuerpo consultivo se encargó de evaluar...

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.