''El Consejo de los Dioses (English Translation: The Council of the Gods)'' is a
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written in
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writer and
national hero
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José Rizal, first published in 1880 in
Manila
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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.
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.
[CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art, Vol 7., Cultural Center of the Philippines, 2015.]
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
Nicomedes "Nick" Marquez Joaquin (; May 4, 1917 – April 29, 2004) was a Filipino writer and journalist best known for his short stories and novels in the English language. He also wrote using the pen name Quijano de Manila. Joaquin was conferr ...
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.
References
External links
Full Text in Spanish(Spanish)
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Plays based on classical mythology
1880 plays
Philippine plays
Spanish-language plays
Works by José Rizal