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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

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Loa for the Auto Sacramental of The Divine Narcissus

1698

The theatre, when it is potent enough to deserve its ancestry, is always dangerous; that is why its instinctively feared by people who do not want change, but only preservation of the status quo.

-Hallie Flanigan