In this adventurous and wide-ranging book, Harris weaves an intriguing tale of Franciscan Missionary theatre in early colonial Mexico and Indigenous dramatizations of the theme of conquest in modern Mexico. He offers fresh readings of representations of the conquest of Mexico by Dryden and Artaud and engages in a lively dialogue with Bakhtin's insistence that drama is a monological genre. Combining careful scholarship and an entertaining style, he develops his study of the theatre into a thoughtful and original meditation on the ethics of cross-cultural encounter.

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MAX HARRIS

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General Editor's Preface - Preface - List of Illustrations - PART 1: THE QUESTION OF DRAMA - Dialogical Genres and Cultural Encounters - Aztec Maidens in Satin Gowns - A Marrano in Montezuma's Court - Aspiring Tyrants and Theatrical Defiance - PART 2: THE DRAMA IN MEXICO - Flower Wars and Battle Plays - Hernan Cort s, Sultan of Babylon - Santiago, the Sun King - Hidden Aztecs and Absent Spaniards - PART 3: THE QUESTION OF THE OTHER - Barbarians and Other Neighbours - Performing the Scriptures - Incarnation and Other Dialogues - Index