Six Neuvomexicano Folk Dramas for Advent Season

These folk plays are performed during the period before and after Christmas known as the Advent Season—from December 12 to January 6—but they can be appreciated any time during the year. Whether approached as dramas, literature, or vernacular religious expression, these works are important in New Mexico's literary and cultural heritage.

Products of late medieval Spain modified over the past 400 years in New Mexico, these dramas mix didactic morality, miracle stories, and folk inspiration. Th...