21st Cent

started in 1565 time of Miguel Lopez de Legazpi

• Spanish Colonization Period

• Pre-Colonial Times

• Colonial Period

• Spanish Pre Colonization Period

first book printed in the Philippines

• DOCTRINA CHRISTIANA

• CHURCH DOCTRINES

Natives who eventually learned to READ and WRITE both in Spanish and in their native tongue

• Spanish

• Japanese

• Ladinos

• Spaniards

Short story, poems, novels, plays, speeches

• Poem

• Short Story

• Literary Forms

Political essays, satires, editorials, and news articles were written

• Short Story

• Literary Forms

• Propaganda Literature

• Secular Literature

dramatization of the Pasyon

• PASYON

• SENAKULO

long narrative about the passion and death of Christ

• Pasyon

• Awit

• Passionary

metrical tale written in octosyllabic quatrain

• Kukuro

• Korido

• Kodiro

colorful tales of CHIVALRY made for singing and chanting

• Lyric

• Fantasy

• Awit

A look into our past settings, customs, practices, and culture

• Spanish Colonial Times

• Pre-Colonial Times

• Literary Forms