San Antonio College Library

About seventy years after the conquest of Mexico, a native scholar recast a Spanish Holy Week play in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs. Like its extant Spanish model, the Nahuatl text dramatizes Christ's departure from Mary on the Wednesday before his crucifixion. But the Nahuatl version is a far different play from its European model - a nativist document written by a master of oral-poetic style, a much-expanded work that subtly revises the message...