Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico

by Louise M. Burkhart

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812215761
• ISBN13: 9780812215762
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"