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It has evolved from the literature of sixteenth-century Spain and the indigenous traditions of Mexico, and for this reason the play has provided a political format for the poor masses throughout the last 400 years.
In sixteenth-century Europe a matachin was a masked dancer, an entertainer who danced with a sword.
A second great difference was that many of the Spanish settlers came by way of Mexico, so many of them represented a mestizo (mixed-race) culture rather than a purely sixteenth-century Spanish culture, as the earlier explorers had.
However, sixteenth-century Spaniards and their descendants were too literal about their religion and too indifferent to nature to be inspired by sunsets.
I groaned at the thought of Michelangelo's succumbing to sixteenth-century anti-Semitism.