Abstract
The present work seeks to comparatively analyze three Spanish-American plays from the beginning of the 19th century: Camila, o la patriota de Sudamérica de Camilo Henríquez (1817), Tupac Amaru by Luís Ambrósio Morante (1821) and La Pola by José Domínguez Roche (1826). Aiming to comprehend the relations between theater and politics during the Spanish American wars of independence, I start …