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Nahuatl Theater: Death and life in colonial Nahua Mexico
Author: Barry D. Sell
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780806136332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeath and Life in Colonial Nahua Mexico presents seven dramas from the first truly American theater. Composed in Nahuatl during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, most of these plays survive only in later copies. Five are morality plays. Presenting Christian views of moral reform, death, judgment, and punishment for sin, they reveal how these themes were adapted into Nahua culture. The other two plays dramatize biblical narratives: the stories of Abraham and Isaac and of the three wise men. In this volume, Barry D. Sell and Louise M. Burkhart offer faithful transcriptions of the Nahuatl as well as new English translations of these remarkable dramas. Accompanying the plays are four interpretive essays and a foreword that broaden our understanding of these rare works. This volume is the first in a four-volume set entitled Nahuatl Theater, edited by Barry D. Sell and Louise M. Burkhart
Nahuatl Theater, Volume 1
Author: Louise M. Burkhart
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Published: 2021-03-11
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780806168821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume, Barry D. Sell and Louise M. Burkhart offer faithful transcriptions of the Nahuatl as well as new English translations of these remarkable dramas. Accompanying the plays are four interpretive essays and a foreword that broaden our understanding of these rare works.
Nahuatl Theater (4 Vol Set)
Author: Barry D. Sell
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Published: 2009-06-20
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780806199740
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains the following four titles: Nahuatl Theater - Nahuatl Theater Volume 1: Death and Life in Colonial Nahua Mexico (978-0-8061-3633-2, University of Oklahoma Press, 2004) Nahuatl Theater - Nahuatl Theater Volume 2: Our Lady of Guadalupe (978-0-8061-3794-0, University of Oklahoma Press, 2006) Nahuatl Theater - Nahuatl Theater Volume 3: Spanish Golden Age Drama in Mexican Translation (978-0-8061-3878-7, University of Oklahoma Press, 2008) Nahuatl Theater - Nahuatl Theater Volume 4: Nahua Christianity in Performance (978-0-8061-4010-0, University of Oklahoma Press, 2009)
Nahuatl Theater
Author: Barry D. Sell
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2012-11-20
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 0806186380
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBarry D. Sell and Louise M. Burkhart have chosen plays that represent the types of dramas performed in late-colonial Aztec communities and underscore the differences between local religion and church doctrine. Included are a complex epiphany drama from Metepec, two morality plays, two Passion plays, and three history plays that show how Nahuas dramatized Christian legends to reinterpret the Spanish Conquest. Fruits of a performance tradition rooted in sixteenth-century collaborations between Franciscan friars and Nahua students, these plays demonstrate how vigorously Nahuas maintained their traditions of community theater, passing scripts from one town to another and preserving them over many generations. The editors provide new insights into Nahua conceptions of Christianity and of society, gender, and morality in the late colonial period. Their precise transcriptions and first-time English translations make this, along with the previous volumes, an indispensable resource for Mesoamerican scholars.
Nahuatl Theater: Our Lady of Guadalupe
Author: Barry D. Sell
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Published: 2004
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Author: Barry D. Sell
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2012-11-27
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 0806186399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEuropean religious drama adapted for an Aztec audience Don Bartolomé de Alva was a mestizo who rose within New Spain’s ecclesiastical hierarchy when people of indigenous heritage were routinely excluded from the priesthood. In 1640 and 1641 he translated several theatrical pieces from Spanish into Nahuatl, yet this prodigious accomplishment remained virtually unknown for centuries. Nahuatl Theater, Volume 3 presents for the first time in English the complete dramatic works of Alva, the only known plays from Spain’s Golden Age adapted into the lively world of Nahuatl-language theater. Alva’s translations—“The Great Theater of the World,” “The Animal Prophet and the Fortunate Patricide,” “The Mother of the Best,” and a farcical intermezzo—represent ambitious attempts to add complex, Baroque dramatic pieces by such literary giants as Lope de Vega and Pedro Calderón de la Barca to the repertory of Nahuatl theater, otherwise dominated by sober one-act religious plays grounded in medieval tradition. The Spanish sources and Alva’s Nahuatl, set on facing pages with their English translations, show how Alva “Mexicanized” the plays by incorporating Nahuatl linguistic conventions and referencing local symbolism and social life. In their introductory essays, the editors offer contextual and interpretive information that provides an entrée into this rich material. As the only known adaptations of these theatrical works into a Native American language, these plays stand as fine literature in their own right.
Nahuatl Theater
Author: Barry D. Sell
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Published: 2023-03-28
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780806192161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNahuatl Theater, Volume 3 presents for the first time in English the complete dramatic works of Alva, the only known plays from Spain's Golden Age adapted into the lively world of Nahuatl-language theater.
Nahuatl Theater: Death and life in colonial Nahua Mexico
Author: Barry D. Sell
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780806136332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeath and Life in Colonial Nahua Mexico presents seven dramas from the first truly American theater. Composed in Nahuatl during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, most of these plays survive only in later copies. Five are morality plays. Presenting Christian views of moral reform, death, judgment, and punishment for sin, they reveal how these themes were adapted into Nahua culture. The other two plays dramatize biblical narratives: the stories of Abraham and Isaac and of the three wise men. In this volume, Barry D. Sell and Louise M. Burkhart offer faithful transcriptions of the Nahuatl as well as new English translations of these remarkable dramas. Accompanying the plays are four interpretive essays and a foreword that broaden our understanding of these rare works. This volume is the first in a four-volume set entitled Nahuatl Theater, edited by Barry D. Sell and Louise M. Burkhart
Nahuatl Theater
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Published: 2004
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