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    Philippine literature developed from the legends of prehistory through the colonial legacy of Spanish rule. During the 19th century, classical literature was published in Spanish along with the country's first newspapers. As the Spanish introduced public education, an educated class called the Ilustrado emerged who helped advance independence efforts through publications like La Solidaridad. Traditional Philippine poetry and theatrical forms developed during this time addressing both religious and secular themes.

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    Philippine literature developed from the legends of prehistory through the colonial legacy of Spanish rule. During the 19th century, classical literature was published in Spanish along with the country's first newspapers. As the Spanish introduced public education, an educated class called the Ilustrado emerged who helped advance independence efforts through publications like La Solidaridad. Traditional Philippine poetry and theatrical forms developed during this time addressing both religious and secular themes.

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    PHILIPPINE LITERATURE

    Philippine literature is the literature associated with the Philippines and includes the legends of
    prehistory, and the colonial legacy of the Philippines.

    Classical literature in Spanish during the 19th Century

    On December 1, 1846, the first daily newspaper, La Esperanza, was published in the country.
    Other early newspapers were La Estrella (1847), Diario de Manila (1848) and Boletin Oficial de
    Filipinas (1852). The first provincial newspaper was El Eco de Vigan(1884), which was issued
    in Ilocos. In Cebu City, El Boleaetín de Cebú (The Bulletin of Cebu) was published in 1890.
    On 1863, the Spanish government introduced a system of free public education that increased the
    population's ability to read Spanish and thereby furthered the rise of an educated class called
    the Ilustrado (meaning, well-informed). Spanish became the social language of urban places and
    the true lingua franca of the archipelago. A good number of Spanish newspapers were published
    until the end of the 1940s, the most influential of them being El Renacimiento, printed in Manila
    by members of the Guerrero de Ermita family.
    Some members of the ilustrado group, while in Spain, decided to start a Spanish publication with
    the aim of promoting the autonomy and independence projects. Members of this group
    included Pedro Alejandro Paterno, who wrote the novel Nínay, and the Philippine national
    hero, José Rizal, who wrote excellent poetry and his two famous novels in Spanish: Noli Me
    Tángere (Touch Me Not), and El Filibusterismo.
    Especially potent was La Solidaridad, more fondly called La Sol by the members of the
    propaganda movement, founded on 15 February 1885. With the help of this paper, Filipino
    national heroes like José Rizal, Graciano Lopez Jaena, and Marcelo H. del Pilarwere able to
    voice out their sentiments.

    Poetry and metrical romance


     Tanaga - Short poems consisting of four lines with seven syllables each that rhyme at the
    end of each line.

     Ladino Poems – Were natives of first Tagalog versifiers who saw print: highly literate in
    both Spanish and the vernacular.

     Corridos – Were widely read during the Spanish period that filled the populace's need
    for entertainment as well as edifying reading matter in their leisure moments.
     Awit – like corridos, these were also widely read during the Spanish period as
    entertaining, edifying, reading manner in their leisure time.

     Moriones – Refers to the helmets of participants dressed as Roman soldiers, their


    identities hidden behind colorful, sometimes grotesque, wooden masks.
     Panunuluyan– the Tagalog version of the Mexican Las Posadas, and literally means
    "seeking passage".

     Pangangaluwa – A practice formerly widespread during All Saints' Day which literally


    means for the soul[s], it is analogous to the now-defunct English custom of Souling.
     Salubong – A ritual performed in the early morning of Easter Sunday a few hours after
    the Easter Vigil and before the Easter Mass, dramatising the meeting between the resurrected
    Jesus and his mother.

     Senákulo – Essentially a Passion play, which depicts the passion and death of Jesus
    Christ. It is customarily performed during Holy Week, and bears similarities to Mystery
    plays popular in medieval Europe.

    Secular

     Comedia – It is about a courtly love between, a prince and a princess of different


    religions, and highlights concepts of colonial attitudes to Christian-Muslim relations.

     Duplo – A forerunner of the balagtasan. The performances consist of two teams; One


    composed of young women called Dupleras or Belyakas; and the other, of young men
    called Dupleros or Belyakos.

     Karagatan – comes from the legendary practice of testing the mettle of young men vying
    for a maiden's hand. The maiden's ring would be dropped into sea and whoever retrieves it
    would have the girl's hand in marriage.

     Santacruzan – Performed during the month of May, which reenacts Saint


    Helena's Finding of the True Cross and serves as an expression of devotion to the Virgin
    Mary.

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