Publisher's Synopsis
Contains 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)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. Nahuatl Theater - Nahuatl Theater Volume 2: Our Lady of Guadalupe (978-0-8061-3794-0, University of Oklahoma Press, 2006)In this volume, editors Barry D. Sell, Louise M. Burkhart, and Stafford Poole present the only known colonial Nahuatl-language dramas based on the Virgin of Guadalupe story: the Dialogue of the Apparition of the Virgin Saint Mary of Guadalupe, an anonymous work from the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century, and The Mexican Portent, authored by creole priest Joseph Pérez de la Fuente in the early eighteenth century. 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, 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 - Nahuatl Theater Volume 4: Nahua Christianity in Performance (978-0-8061-4010-0, University of Oklahoma Press, 2009)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.
