El Consejo de los Dioses

by José Rizal

"El Consejo de los Dioses" by José Rizal is a play written in 1880. Written when Rizal was nineteen, the work depicts Olympian deities discussing Western literary standards. The play explores human desire for knowledge and establishes guidelines for Filipino speculative thought, becoming a reference text for literary criticism in the Philippines. It won first prize in a literary contest commemorating Cervantes's death, sponsored by the Liceo Artistico Literario de Manila.