SOURCE: "New Plays by René Marqués," in Hispania, Vol. XLIII, No. 3, September, 1960, pp. 451-52.

In the following review, Dauster provides a concise evaluation of La muerte no entrará en palacio, Un niño azul para esa sombra, and Los soles truncos.

Under the title Teatro, José Luis González' Ediciones Arrecife has just published three plays by the distinguished Puerto Rican playwright, best known as author of La carreta. The plays included are La muerte no entrará en palacio, Un niño azul para esa sombra (Premio del Certamen de Teatro de 1958 del Ateneo Puertorriqueño) and Los soles truncos (included in the volume Teatro puertorriqueño published by the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña to commemorate its Primer Festival de Teatro Puertorriqueño). All three are complex works representing the author's concern for the loss of traditional values, and Los soles truncos, particularly requires several readings...