Lerzundi, Patricio C.

Dr. Patricio C. Lerzundi is the chair of the Department of Journalism, Communication and Theatre at Lehman College, CUNY. He received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Center,CUNY as a specialist in Colonial Latin American Literature. He has published five works on this subject.

La Araucana, an Annotated Critical Edition of a Seventeenth-Century Spanish Auto-Sacramental Text

2011 0-7734-1535-1
This book is the first annotated critical edition of a little known "auto sacramental" of early Spanish seventeenth century. The auto, representing the mystery of the Eucharist, developed as a literary genre peculiar to Spain, becoming a powerful vehicle to propagate Catholicism, first in Spain and later in the New World.

Algunas HazaÑas De Las Muchas De Don Garcia Hurtado De Mendoza, MarquÉs De CaÑete

2008 0-7734-5048-3
This work makes available for the first time an annotated critical edition of an early seventeenth-century Golden Age play nearly forgotten in the pantheon of Chilean literary history. In Spanish.

El Gobernador Prudente / The Prudent Governor by Gaspar De Avila

2009 0-7734-4813-1
This book is not only the first annotated edition of the play, El gobernador prudente by Gaspar de Avila is the third, and last, play on the deeds of Don GarcIa Hurtado de Mendoza, governor of Chile from 1557 to 1561.