Francisco Romero (bullfighter) by step towards the modern "muleta" or red cape and "capote" or purple and yellow cape, but it is very plausible that was Romero the one that popularized his use as "the" bullfight essential prop. It seems that the death of a bull by sword was practiced previously, specially by the employees of meat processing factories in Sevilla, but not in a bullring. In any case, if Francisco Romero is not the inventor of the modern bullfight, he is the first matador that became professional and made a living from bull fighting. His success implied a fundamental and radical change
A Piece of Monologue the walls now bare and uncluttered, he chose to let them remain that way. As James Knowlson puts it in "Damned to Fame" (p 650): “Life here emulated art, or at least echoed the mood that inspired it.” The oxymoron "Birth was the death of him" evokes a fusion of the two events. We find this in "Breath", in which a stage littered with rubbish is accompanied by a faint cry, followed by inspiration, silence, expiration, another cry and silence again. End of piece. To access his memories (i.e. to see the wall) the man in "Monologue" has first to