Nahuatl Theater Volume 1: Death and Life in Colonial Nahua Mexico
Description
Presents seven dramas from the first truly American theatre. Composed in Nahuatl during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, most of these plays survive only in later copies. 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.
