Apu Ollantay: A Drama of the Time of the Incas

TUPAC YUPANQUI. What horrid cavern do I see? Who is this woman? what means it? What cruel wretch thus tortures her? What means that chain bound around her? Mama Ccacca, come nea...

The drama was cultivated by the Incas, and dramatic performances were enacted before them. Garcilasso de la Vega, Molina, and Salcamayhua are the authorities who received and ha...

UILLAC UMA. Last night, with guards, I wandered out On heights towards Uilcanuta. Far off I saw a crowd in chains, No doubt the Anti prisoners,v For they are all defeated quite....

An open space near the junction of the two torrents of Cuzco, the Huatanay and Tullumayu or Rodadero, called Pumap Chupan, just outside the gardens of the Sun. The Temple of the...

A great hall in the Colcampata, then the palace of the Queen or Ccoya Anahuarqui. In the centre of the back scene a doorway, and seen through it gardens with the snowy peak of V...

OLLANTAY. Alas, Ollantay! Ollantay! Thou master of so many lands, Insulted by him thou servedst well. O my thrice-beloved Coyllur, Thee too I shall lose for ever. O the void[33]...

Ollantay-tampu. Hall of the fortress-palace. Back scene seven immense stone, slabs, resting on them a monolith right across. Above masonry. At sides masonry with recesses; in th...

(Pitu Salla returns with a cup of water, a small covered vase containing food, and a torch which she gives to Yma Sumac. She leads Yma Sumac through bushes to the stone door, fi...

PACHACUTI. The time has arrived, O great Chiefs, To decide on the coming campaign. The spring is approaching us now, And our army must start for the war. To the province of Coll...

A garden in the house of the Virgins of the Sun. Chilca shrubs and mulli trees (Schinus Molle) with panicles of red berries. The walls of the house at the back, with a door. A g...

The great terrace entrance to Ollantay-tampu. On R. a long masonry wall with recesses at intervals. At back a great entrance doorway. On L. terraces descend, with view of valley...

PIQUI CHAQUI. Ollantay, is it? He is at work. Ollantay! He is building a wall, With very small stones indeed; They are brought by little dwarfs— So small that to be a man’s size...

(Enter the HIGH PRIEST or UILLAC UMA, with priests and chosen Virgins of the Sun. The INCA dressed as his father. Uillac Uma in full dress, wearing the huampar chucu. Virgins in...

RUMI-ÑAUI. Who can tell what direction to take? Three days have gone by since his flight, Perchance he’s concealed in some house, And till now he is there, safely hid.

APU OLLANTAY.—General of Anti-suyu, the eastern province of the empire. A young chief, but not of the blood-royal. His rank was that of a Tucuyricuo or Viceroy. The name occurs...

YMA SUMAC. Pitu Salla, beloved friend, How long wilt thou conceal from me The secret that I long to know? Think, dearest, of my anxious heart, How I shall be in constant grief U...