Francisco de Acevedo y El pregonero de Dios y patriarca de los pobres, comedia de santos irreverente.

Abstract

El pregonero de Dios y patriarca de los pobres was written by Francisco de Acevedo in Mexico, where it was performed in 1684. Based on the life of St Francis of Assisi, it takes Villegas’s text Flos' sanctorum as a point of departure as well as possibly Lope de Vega’s El serafín humano. The play uses comic elements (disparates) in a way that was praised by many contemporaneous authors (including Sor Juana) but resulted in its censorship and final prohibition.