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Nahuatl Theater Volume One:
Death and Life in Colonial Nahua Mexico

Edited by Louise M. Burkhart and Barry D. Sell, with a preface by Miguel León-Portilla and essays by Sell, Burkhart, Viviana Díaz Balsera and Daniel Mosquera

Published 2004, University of Oklahoma Press

 

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This volume contains five morality plays and two plays based on biblical narratives. The links below lead to brief descriptions of each play.



A Franciscan friar administering confession to a Nahua man, who is in the grasp of a devil. Woodcut from fray Alonso de Molina's Confessionario mayor of 1565. Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.
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