The Conquest on Trial: Carvajal's Complaint of the Indians in the Court of Death

by Micael de Carvajal and Carlos A. Jáuregui

Book Overview

Michael de Carvajal's fascinating and unusual play--published by Luis Hurtado de Toledo in 1557--is a rare sixteenth-century theatrical piece about the conquest of the New World. It is a long-ignored but fundamental source for the study of Latin American cultural history. A theatrical version of the Spanish Conquest clearly influenced by Bartolom de Las Casas, the play centers on a group of American natives filing a complaint against the Spanish...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271025131
• ISBN13: 9780271025131
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.7"