cleanse the pedagogical problem of all extra-pedagogical baggage. Later years In 1965, George Edgar and Stella Holt produced the English version of Marqués' "The Oxcart" Off-Broadway, with Míriam Colón in the lead role. René Marqués died in San Juan, Puerto Rico on March 22, 1979 at age 59. Puerto Rico has named a school in his honor and in the Luis A. Ferré Performing Arts Center in San Juan there is a 760-seat René Marqués Theater. Noted works Plays Juan Bobo and the Occidental Lady La Carreta (The Oxcart) El Hombre y Sus Sueños (Published in 1948) El Hombre Y Sus Sueños Palm Sunday El Sol y Los Mac Donald (Premiered 1950) Los Soles Truncos (Premiered 1958) (Based on his short story "Purificación en la Calle del Cristo") Un Niño Azul para esa Sombra La Muerte No Entrará en Palacio La Casa Sin Reloj El Apartamiento Mariana o el Alba Sacrificio en el Monte Moriah David y Jonatán, Tito y Berenice Carnaval Afuera, Carnaval Adentro Novels La Víspera del Hombre La Mirada (1975) Essays El Puertorriqueño Dócil Ensayos 1956–1969 Short Stories Otro Día Nuestro En Una Ciudad Llamada San Juan Purificación en la Calle del Cristo Cuentos Puertorriqueños de Hoy Screenplays Juan Sin Seso (Brainless Juan) (Short Film; Dir. Luis A. Maisonet) Modesta (Short Film; Dir. Benji Doniger, Music by Héctor Campos Parsi) See also List of Puerto Ricans Latino theatre in the United States French immigration to Puerto Rico List of Puerto Rican writers Puerto Rican literature Puerto Rican Nationalist Party References External links An Analysis of “the Oxcart” by René Marqués, Puerto Rican Playwright 1919 births 1979 deaths Burials at Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery People from Arecibo, Puerto Rico Puerto Rican nationalists Puerto Rican dramatists and playwrights Puerto Rican male short story writers Puerto Rican short story writers Puerto Rican male writers Puerto Rican independence activists 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights 20th-century short story writers 20th-century American male writers