The evangelist drama as a rite of passage: Ritual structure at Nacimiento de San Juan and La conquista de Jerusalén
This paper studies the process of ritual revaluation of missionary dramas in the sixteenth century Mexico through the formal analysis of its stage representation. Dramatizations are related to the model of rites of passage, based on the structural similarities between indigenous rituals and Christia...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Estudios de Historia Novohispana |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/62529 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://novohispana.historicas.unam.mx/index.php/ehn/article/view/62529 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Teatro evangelizador Teatro mexicano Ritos de paso Semiótica teatral Semiótica ritual Missionary theatre Mexican theatre Rites of passage Semiotics of theatre Semiotics of ritual |
| Sumario: | This paper studies the process of ritual revaluation of missionary dramas in the sixteenth century Mexico through the formal analysis of its stage representation. Dramatizations are related to the model of rites of passage, based on the structural similarities between indigenous rituals and Christian festivities in the New World. We show that the change of the performativity value of the missionary dramas was caused by its performing within the ritual structure. That representation conditions encouraged participants to embody both dramatic roles and ritual functions during the ceremonies which interrelated the dramatic experience with the reality of living ritual. The proposed scheme is applied on two plays performed in Tlaxcala in 1538: Nacimiento de San Juan and La conquista de Jerusalén. |
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