El Consejo de los Dioses
El Consejo de los Dioses
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Adaptation of the play by Lope Blas Hucapte
Author
José Rizal
Country
Philippines
Language
Spanish
Genre
Play
Publisher
Liceo Artistico Literario de Manila
Publication date
1880
Media type
Print
El Consejo de los Dioses (English Translation: The Council of the Gods) is
a play written in Spanish by Filipino writer and national hero José Rizal, first published
in 1880 in Manila by the Liceo Artistico Literario de Manila in 1880, and later by La
Solidaridad in 1883.
El Consejo de los Dioses was written by Rizal when he was only nineteen years old,
and reveals the humanistic education of the Philippines at the time and his answer to
scholasticism. 2Awards
Summary]
The play exposes how an Asian teenager look unto the cultural elements of the Western
humanistic tradition, overcoming not only its formalism, but at the same time laying the
foundations for an effort toward self-knowledge.
Depicting Olympian deities discussing Western literary standards, it becomes a
reference text of literary criticism in the Philippines. Rizal further explores the true
meaning of human desire for knowledge and designs the guidelines for a Filipino
speculative thought.[1]
Awards[]
The play won the first prize award in an 1880-1881 literary contest commemorating the
death of Cervantes sponsored by the Liceo Artistico Literario de Manila. “Con el
recuerdo del pasado entro en el porvenir” (“I enter the future remembering the past”),
was Rizal's epigraph for the award.
Translation]
In December 1900 this was translated to Tagalog. In 1961 it was edited with a prologue
by Astrana Maria in El Cervantismo de heroe Filipino Rizal. Nick Joaquin translated the
play in English.
Adaptations[]
The Tagalog version was adapted into sarswela by Pascual H. Poblete and published
in El Comercio de Filipinas.
Lope Blas Hucapte made arrangements for the theatrical staging in 1915.
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