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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.

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The abolition of judicial torture—alongside the eradication of both slavery and capital punishment—was one of the most consequential issues debated in eighteenth-century continental Europe. A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo. Seeking support for its publication, he forwarded the manuscript to Prime Minister Manuel Godoy in 1795. The savvy Spanish politician, however, not only rejected the text but also warned its author against further...

La convergencia de una mirada "especializada" proveniente de los grupos de médicos, pedagogos e higienistas, y otra de "divulgación" procedente de la prensa, las revistas y los magazines ilustrados, se encargó de construir una importante serie de conceptos, imágenes y representaciones en torno a la niñez, que terminaron por diseñar nuevos encuadres y parámetros para reflexionar en torno a esta etapa, así como acerca de las formas de representarla en el cambio del siglo XIX al XX. No se trata en absoluto de plantear que en periodos históricos anteriores no se registrara una reflexión ...