Title: La araucana, an annotated critical edition of a seventeenth-century Spanish auto-sacramental text
Description: This book is the first annotated critical edition of a little known "auto sacramental" of early Spanish seventeenth century. The auto, representing the mystery of the Eucharist, developed as a literary genre peculiar to Spain, becoming a powerful vehicle to propagate Catholicism, first in Spain and later in the New World.
Subjects: Autos sacramentales, Spanish drama, History and criticism
Time periods: Classical period, 1500-1700