SECULAR DRAMAS
reasoning.
• Secular things are not religious. Anything not
affiliated with a church or faith can be called
secular.
• Plot is not based on the Bible.
• It is for populists.
✓ Relatable to ordinary people
✓ Plot: Involves ordinary people
KARAGATAN
• This is a poetic vehicle of a socio-religious
nature
celebrated during the death of a person.
• In this contest, more or less formal, a ritual is
performed based on a legend about a princess
who
dropped her ring into the middle of the sea and
who
offered here hand in marriage to anyone who
can
retrieve it.
• A leader starts off with an extemporaneous
poem
announcing the purpose. He then spins a
“lumbo” o “tabo” marked with a white line.
Whoever comes in the direction of the white
line when the spinning stops gets his turn to “go
into the sea to look for the ring.” This means a
girl will ask him a riddle and if he is able to
answer, he will offer the ring to the girl.
DUPLO
• The Duplo replace the Karagatan.
• This is a poetic joust in speaking and
The roles are taken from the Bible and from
proverbs and saying.
• It is usually played during wakes for the dead.
ZARZUELA
• Considered the father of the drama; it is a
musical comedy or melodrama three acts which
dealt with man’s passions and emotions like
love, hate, revenge, cruelty, avarice or some
social or political proble.
CARILLO
• Shadow Play
• This is a form of dramatic entertainment
performed on a moonless night during a town
fiesta or on dark nights after a harvest.
• This shadow play is made by projecting
cardboard figures before a lamp against a white
sheet. The figures are moved like marionettes
whose dialogues are produced by some experts.
• The dialogues are drawn from a Corrido or
Awit or some religious play interspersed with
songs. These are called by various names in
different places:
KOMEDYA
• Komedya de Capa y Espada
• The komedya is a play in verse, usually about
royal characters from imaginary European
kingdoms, utilizing marches, swordfights,
magical and fantastical elements as part of the
spectacle. Traditionally, the subject of the
komedya is the war between Christians and
Moslems, or the love affair of princes and
princesses.
• The terms 'awit' and 'corrido' are both related lower classes. Themes were taken from
to music. everyday life scenarios.

AWIT • Held after harvest

✓ 'Awit' is the Tagalog word for song

✓ The awit is in dodecasyllabic verse.

✓ The awits are fabricated stories from writer's

imagination although the setting and characters
are European.

✓ The awit refers to chanting.

✓ Example of Awit: Florante at Laura by

Francisco Balagtas

KORIDO

✓ The Spanish word 'corrido' means "a metrical

story, usually sung to the accompaniment of a
guitar, in fandango style.

✓ Pardo de Tavera, an imminent Filipino scholar,

believes that the word 'corrido' was derived
from the Spanish 'occurido,' meaning "events"
or "happenings"

✓ Korido is the generic name for Philippine

romances.

✓ Example of corrido: Ibong Adarna by Maria

Odulia de Guzman

In Tagalog literature, an awit is distinguished

from the korido basically by the number of
syllables in each line. The korido refers to
metrical romances in octosyllabic (8 syllables)
verse called 'hakira' The awit is in dodecasyllabic
(12 syllables) verse called 'plosa.'

SAINETE

• This was a short musical comedy popular

during the 18th century. They were exaggerated
comedies shown between acts of long plays and
were mostly performed by characters from the