Matador Manuel Jesús, ‘El Cid’, performs a pass in 2007 at La Maestranza in Seville, the sport’s oldest bullring. Photograph: Marcelo Del Pozo/Reuters A bull ring in a big Spanish city on a weekend afternoon: not a place for faint hearts, nor for anyone with ethical qualms about what they are here to see. The plaza is packed to the rafters; there are elderly couples and groups of young women, families, a few teenagers. Imagine a cross between a baseball game, a Roman circus, and a sell-out concert by some X Factor idol. All is noise, heat and shouting and garish colours; a wind band plays Spanish bullfight paso dobles. Nothing about this scene has changed, in essence, since Hemingway, Orson...
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