Hamlet en el Mapocho: Luis Ambrosio Morante y el teatro transicional tardo-colonial/temprano-republicano en el Cono Sur.

The historiography of theatre during the late-colonial/early-republican transitional period in the Southern Cone engages in a predominantly nation-centered approach and tends to disregard the study of the regional circulation of actors, theatre impresarios, as well as theatrical archives and repertoires. This obfuscates the level of exchange that occurred among the different theatrical systems in place in the Southern Cone, which in turn, has obscured the existence and development of a shared theatrical language in the region. This paper investigates the conditions that made possible the arrival of actor and playwright Luis Ambrosio Morante to Chile; the material means involved in the performance of his El refugio de amor en Chile a loa written as the introduction to Hamlet, which was performed in Santiago in December 1824; and the text of the loa itself. In doing so, this paper will show that these three dimensions reveal the existence of a larger network that goes beyond the case study of the loa and entwines the circulation of theatre and performance throughout the main cities of the Southern Cone. The examination of such a network, I argue, uncovers a theatrical repertoire shared among the several theatrical systems in the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]