This volume will contain the following plays:

1. "The Nobleman and His Barren Wife" (tentative working title): a morality play about a childless couple. The husband wants to give their property to the Church and the poor. The wife, who really does not want children and whom demons have made barren because of her vanity, want to keep the money and has a friend of hers hide some of it. Both die; the husband goes to heaven and the wife to hell. It has never before been published.

2. "The Destruction of Jerusalem": a dramatization, only very loosely based on historical events, of Rome's destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. The main characters are Pontius Pilate, the Emperor Vespasian, his son Titus, and Cain, a fictional envoy between Rome and Jerusalem. The play ends with Pilate's death. It is missing some material at the beginning. A one-folio fragment from the beginning of another copy or version of the same play is in the Latin American Library at Tulane University, and we will include that with our translation.

3. "The Star Sign" : an Epiphany play similar to Volume One's "The Three Kings," but with a longer and more inclusive story. It begins with an ancient emperor dispatching vassals to a mountaintop to watch for the star that indicates the birth of Jesus, and ends after the Massacre of the Innocents and the Holy Family's escape to Egypt. This is a 1717 version of a play previously known from an earlier, and now lost, manuscript that was published by Francisco del Paso y Troncoso and Fernando Horcasitas as "Comedia de los Reyes." The manuscript is in the Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia in Mexico City.

4. "Colloquy of how the fortunate Saint Helen found the precious and revered wooden cross, the Holy Cross": a historical-legendary play about the Emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity, his victory over Maxentius at the Battle of Milvan Bridge, and his mother, Helen's, quest to recover the True Cross in Jerusalem. The play was written or revised by the Tlaxcalan Nahua priest and nobleman don Manuel de los Santos y Salazar in 1714. The manuscript is in the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.

5. "Don Rafael": a morality play attributed to the Franciscan friar Agustín de Vetancurt (author of a chronicle and other Nahuatl texts in the late seventeenth century), but passed along and recopied in 1749. Don Rafael is concerned about the state of his soul and wants to confess but, receiving bad advice from a friend and from a devil, fails to do so adequately, to the frustration of his guardian angel. Demons carry don Rafael away. His behavior contrasts with that of don Francisco and his two sons, who model a proper Christian life. The manuscript is in the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.

6. "Passion Play from Tepaltzingo": a long play dramatizing Christ's last days, from Palm Sunday to the crucifixion, from the town of Tepaltzingo in the state of Morelos. The manuscript is in the Latin American Library at Tulane University.

7. "Passion Play from San Simón Tlatlauhquitepec": a recently discovered, incomplete Passion play from the state of Tlaxcala.

Plays not included in the volume may be added to this web site in the future.