... be separated from the rich diversity of Latin American theater. Copyright 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Latin American Popular Theatre: The First Five Centuries . By Weiss Judith A. , with Damasceno Leslie . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 1993 . Photographs...

...Willis Knapp Jones The Development of the National Theatre in Chile to 1842 . By Campbell Margaret V. . Gainesville , 1958 . University of Florida Press . Latin American Monographs, 4 . Bibliography . Pp. v , 78 . Paper . Copyright 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 ...

...Mercer Cook Le théatre a Saint Domingue. Prix de l’alliance française . By Fouchard Jean . Port-au-prince , 1955 . Imprimerie de l’Etat . Pp. x , 353 . Paper. Copyright 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 ...

..., and concludes with two significant figures, Lavardén and Concolorcorvo. The last chapter, properly the longest of all, discusses romanticism in its various manifestations and then passes to the gaucho, the Indianist and realistic novel, short story, essay, poetry, and theatre. Volume II in its five chapters...

..., longer part of the introduction the author presents the background of the development of the didactic theatre. In her brief review of the Spanish theatre up to the time of Cervantes she quite accurately sees its application to educational purposes as merely an intensification of its original purpose...

... to a scholarly discourse hitherto restricted to specialists. As the book shows, the activities of Alfonso and his circle of scholars ranged over a wide cultural spectrum: music, scientific and magical lore, troubadour poetry, theatre, exquisite manuscript illuminations, the formation of the Castilian language...

..., with summaries of the major papers and debates, as well as through the Coppella ice-cream parlour (his favorite haunt for good conversation), art galleries, theatres, cinema, schools, and so forth. During his final week there is a brief tour of Mantanzas Province. The most finely drawn scenes unfold with his...

...,” it is evident that these same inquiries need to be pursued overseas, ideally by the author himself, in order to determine by what stages the transformation of the central government under the pressures of war was effected as well the methods of administration and the theatres of war in the islands, coasts...

... dealing with colonial science and with contemporary paintings are highly recommended. The same is true for the study of colonial theatre. The pamphlet by the Director of the Colonial Museum of Sucre, Giménez-Carranza, is also of high quality. ...

... is, in consequence, trapped by a number of contradictions. A good example is the battle of Brunete. Thus, after categorically stating that the events of May 1937 “seriously undermined republican military efforts in the principal theatres of war,” Esenwein goes on to conclude that the defeat was caused...

... the biographical material she causes to emerge the image of a man warmly human, friendly, courteous, and loyal; an affectionate husband, fond of children and animals; a person who takes pleasure in conversation, music, books, theatre, dancing, and chess-by no means the gloomy, churlish, sarcastic introvert who...

... conquest of Peru can hardly be justified by the premise that the 49ers read Prescott’s history on their voyages around Cape Hom. Other digressions consider the rudeness of gallery “b’hoys” at New York theatres, the poetry of Pablo Neruda, and the reasons why water boys in Santiago so often tumbled from...

...] the pure orality of Jamaican folk poetics. . . engages in constructive dialogue with the scribal conventions of English metrics” (p. 84). In a brief chapter on the Sistren Theatre Collective’s autobiographical Lion-heart Gal , Cooper demonstrates the use of Jamaican Creole for academic analysis (pp. 91-95...

..., traveling theatre companies, and French book fairs. These efforts came to a near-halt during World War I but recovered during the interwar years. Since World War II, however, the French hold on Latin American high culture has yielded to inroads from North America; but by no means has it disappeared...

... rooms of the local movie theatres, of the use of popular music in Brazilian movies (including a special chapter on the use of carnival music), and in documentary films. Divided into six chapters, the first book attempts to trace the origin of the most important genres of urban popular music...

... Press 1980 Abdias do Nascimento is a familiar figure in the landscape of Afro-Brazilian cultural affairs. For many years he served as a principal organizer of the Experimental Negro Theatre and an active participant in important conferences on the study of the Brazilian Negro. In the late 1960s...

... commentary from the bibliographical analysis, this can be a most useful volume. It contains a veritable mine of information on the 1935-1970 period. It should not, however, be recommended to the unwary. Perhaps Ciria’s muse should be Melpomene rather than Clio. There is some excellent theatre in this volume...

... to this volume. Schantz examines Mexicali’s Owl Café and Theatre, a center for vice tourism from the 1910s through the 1940s. The Owl offered Americans a social space where they could enjoy an exotic, albeit stereotypical, version of Mexican nightlife. As Schantz notes, “a popular and unthinking way of viewing...

... in mystic writing. Perhaps the most innovative reading is the final chapter dedicated to the lively Chilean nun Ursula Suárez. Ibsen argues that Ursula took the mystics’ use of dialogue and grafted on to it tropes and characters common to period theatre ( la comedia ) in order to step out of the traditional...

... of intellectuals and creators in a series of miniessays. These deal with topics as disparate as La noche mexicana , a complex piece of nationalist public theatre, José Vasconcelos's memoirs and political career, Manuel Gamio's work at Teotihuacán, and Sergei Eisenstein's ¡Que viva México! Most texts...