Volume 1 Nahuatl Theater

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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

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

"The Three Kings"	"The Sacrifice of Isaac"	"Souls and Testamentary Executors"
"Final Judgment"	"How to Live on Earth"	"The Merchant"
"The Life of Don Sebastián"

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.