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Clurman, Harold | November 22, 1965 issue

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The article discusses producer Peter Shaffer's drama "The Royal Hunt of the Sun," can get by only through sufferance. That it should be mistaken for a good play, even a masterpiece in the sloppy lingo of Broadway journalism, is not surprising It is semi-allegorical, a play with an idea and well-written. The aging mercenary Pizarro, crippled, cynical, without hope of gaining anything in this life better than gold, encounters in his conquest of Peru. The young Inca sovereign Atahualpa whose rule is just his people's content, his economy opulently communal and his disposition gentle. Pizarro's heart is touched as he beholds something in the Incas' world nobler than the conquistadors' reality of savage plunder.

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ROYAL Hunt of the Sun, The (Theatrical production); SHAFFER, Peter; INCAS; JOURNALISM; ALLEGORIES; PERU
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