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This 10 page paper discusses the themes in the play “Story of a Stairway” by Spanish playwright Antonio Buero Vallejo. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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system. This paper discusses his play Story of a Stairway. Discussion The first thing that a reader or audience member might think about the play as he considers it is
that the characters seem somehow flat, at least until they get into a furious fight in the third act. This is not to say that they are uninteresting, but that
we know very little about them, because Buero hasnt given them great depth. Unlike a play like Hamlet, for example, these characters do not have long soliloquies in which they
reveal their thoughts, nor do we witness their private interactions. What we know of them we glean by watching them in the very public venue of the staircase. This
may well be due to the fact that, at least in the opinion of one critic, Buero is a member of what is called the "Theater Commitment," a movement "characterized
by the importance of the dramatists political views in relation to his art" (Donahue). Buero dreamed of an artistic career, but his life changed dramatically when his father, an army
officer, was shot by police in Madrid (OConnor). The grisly event, which was tragic but all too commonplace, catapulted the young man into active service with the Republicans, though not
as a soldier but as a medical corpsman (Donahue). Although such a position was a "lesser" one than serving on the front lines, his status as a non-combatant didnt stop
the authorities from jailing him after the conflict ended; he spent seven years in various prisons (Donahue). He was fighting for a cause that was ultimately lost, and when he
was released from prison and began to write, he was faced with the repressive, hard-line conservative Franco regime. Open criticism of the dictatorship was dangerous, as all such statements are,
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