Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780812215762)

Identified only in 1986, the Nahuatl Holy Week play is the earliest known dramatic script in any Native American language. In Holy Wednesday, Louise Burkhart presents side-by-side English translations of the Nahuatl play and its Spanish source. An accompanying commentary analyzes the differences between the two versions to reveal how the native author altered the Spanish text to fit his own aesthetic sensibility and the broader discursive universe of the Nahua church. A richly detailed introduction places both works and their creators within the cultural and political contexts of late sixteenth-century Mexico and Spain.

Author: Louise M. Burkhart
ISBN-10: 0812215761
ISBN-13: 9780812215762
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/1996
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 9.03h x 6.09w x 0.86d