- Category
- Mythology
- Claimed author
- Traditional (attributed to Inca-period court composers)
- Likely origin
- Anonymous Quechua dramatist; earliest manuscripts copied c. 1770 by Antonio Valdez and others
- Date
- Oral drama of Inca origin; extant manuscripts c. 1770 CE
- Language
- Quechua
- Manuscripts
- Several colonial-era Quechua manuscripts (Valdez, Justiniani, Dominican convent of Cuzco)
- Accepted by
- Classic Quechua drama transmitted orally from Inca times, written down in the colonial era
The best-known work of classical Quechua literature: the drama of the general Ollantay, his forbidden love for the Inca's daughter Cusi Coyllur, and his rebellion and pardon. Translated with an introduction by Sir Clements Markham.