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Rarely has a literary work breathed as much truth as The Weavers. Based on the uprisings that took place in 1844 in Silesia, where textile workers lived in terrible conditions subject to the despotism and arbitrariness of the owners -as was the case in our country at the time- Hauptmann writes the first drama. in which an insurgent mass becomes the protagonist. Perhaps they have never been described as accurately as in this play, considered one of the culminating and unsurpassed moments of European theater, the perennial social injustices, the sufferings of extreme misery, or the fearlessness that hunger and need can bring. arouse in the most desperate.