Holy Wednesday : : A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico / / Louise M. Burkhart.

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• VerfasserIn: Burkhart, Louise M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: New Cultural Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 26 illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Scenario --; PART ONE: THE SETTING --; PART TWO: THE PLAYS --; Appendix: Comparative Texts --; Notes --; References Cited --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780812200249; 9783110413458; 9783110413540; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9780812200249
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Louise M. Burkhart.

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.