Google celebrates Francisco Balagtas
Google commemorated on Monday the 230th birthday of Francisco Balagtas, one of the Philippines’ most influential figures in literature.
Google commemorated on Monday the 230th birthday of Francisco Balagtas, one of the Philippines’ most influential figures in literature.
The king of Tagalog poets Balagtas (Francisco Baltazar) was a victim of love, and wrote his immortal komedya “Florante at Laura” while in a Manila jail. He had fallen in
Three years ago, Philippine Educational Theater Association (Peta) put on a show that aimed to make Shakespeare more accessible to the Filipino youth by transplanting the Bard’s dated English to the hip language of rap. The play was “William,” and it was a gamble that handsomely paid off, in both the pedagogical and theatrical sense.
“Isang dulaang umiispluk ng samu’t saring ispirikitik ng dulaang Pinoy.”
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