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

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.