La Rodoguna

play by Peralta Barnuevo

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In Latin American literature: Plays
La Rodoguna (written about 1719) is a free adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s drama Rodogune (the name of the play’s heroine); it is more Neoclassical than Peralta’s occasional plays. The best of the latter is El Mercurio galante (“The Gallant Mercury”), an operetta performed in 1720…
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