KNOWN WORKS OF

DR. JOSE RIZAL

PLAYS
The Council of the Gods
The play exposes how an Asian teenager look unto the cultural
elements of the Western humanistic tradition, overcoming not only
its formalism, but at the same time laying the foundations for an
effort toward self-knowledge.
Depicting Olympian deities discussing Western literary standards, it
becomes a reference text of literary criticism in the Philippines.
Rizal further explores the true meaning of human desire for
knowledge and designs the guidelines for a Filipino speculative
thought.
Beside the Pasig
The play’s protagonists are a young boy named Leonido,
who defends the Christians, and Satan, who speaks
against Spain for bringing Christianity to the Philippines.
The Tragedy of St. Eustace
A Roman general prior to his conversion as a Christian, the then-known-as
Placidus saw Jesus in a vision while he was hunting a stag in Tivoli near
Rome. Because of that, he and his family immediately converted
themselves to Christianity and so he had the name Eustache.
He experienced various trials which tested his faith. He lost his wealth as
they were stolen; his servants were plagued; his wife Theopista was
kidnapped by the captain of the ship where they had their voyage; then,
while crossing the river with his sons Agapius and Theopistus, the sons
were taken by a lion and a wolf. These incidents, however, did not made
Eustache lose faith. Even when he was forced to sacrifice for the pagan
gods, he refused and so was sentenced to death by Hadrian, the emperor,
by roasting inside a bronze statue of a bull in AD 118.
SCULPTURES
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 The original clay
sculpture on display at
Rizal Shrine Museum in
November 2015