Una mirada al teatro profesional en la Audiencia de Charcas a finales del siglo XVI: el caso del autor de comedias Francisco de Morales

In this article I intend to reconstruct —mainly through notarial records of La Plata— the presence in Charcas, during the 1590s, of Francisco de Morales, an autor de comedias by the time already famous in Lima. Within this framework I propose some conclusions about the emergence of professional theater in the territory that allow me to show how Charcas, since a very early period, was essential to the confor- mation of professional theatre circuits in the Viceroyalty of Perú.