Ritual Imports
Subtitle: Performing Medieval Drama In America
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: January 31, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780801442957
Subjects: Drama texts: classical, early & medieval; Literary studies: general; Technical & background skills; Theatre, drama; Plays / Drama; History and criticism; Drama; Plays; United States; Theater - Direction & Production; Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Theater - General; Drama, Medieval; Performing arts
First sentence: The history of the matachines dance begins with the Spanish conquest of the Pueblo Indians in 1540 and the expedition of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado into New Mexico, although the fate of the Pueblos had arguably already been sealedand many of the conditions for the implanting of the matachines dance already established when Cortés vanquished the Aztecs some twenty years earlier.