2. NOTABLE WORKS
• Sarsuwela
• Footnote To Youth
• How my brother Leon brought home a wife?
• Kahapon, Ngayon at Bukas
• Wanted: Chaperon
3. SARSUWELA
• It is a play with singing and dancing
• Also known as “zarzuela”
• Dulang inawitan o dulang hinunihan
4. FOOTNOTE TO
YOUTH
• A short story
• A story of a boy who was only 17 years old
when he decides to marry his loved one.
5. HOW MY BROTHER
LEON BROUGHT
HOME A WIFE • A story written by Manuel Arguilla about a man
who comes home to his province to introduce
his wife from the city to his family.
6. KAHAPON, NGAYON
AT BUKAS
• A drama symbolic in three acts written by
Aurelio Tolentino in 1903.
• First staged at the “Teatro Libertad” in Manila
on May 15, 1903.
• Considered as Tolentino’s most significant
contribution to Filipino drama and most
seditious drama of the era.
7. WANTED:
CHAPERON
• A play in one act, written and directed by
Wilfredo Ma. Guerrero.
• Jose Villa Panganiban translated it as
“Kailangan Isang Tsaperon”
• This household comedy tells about conflicts
among a rich couple and their children because
of their opposing views on behavior and on
family norms.
8. NOTABLE AUTHORS
• Severino Reyes
• Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero
• Fernando Ma. Guerrero
• Cecilio Apostol
• Jose Corazon de Jesus
• Benigno R. Ramos
10. DRAMATIST
• Severino Reyes
• Was a Filipino writer, playwright and director of plays
• He used the pen name “Lola Basyang.”
• He was nicknamed “Don Binoy.”
• Reyes is known as the “Father of Tagalog Plays” and as
the father of the tagalog “zarzuela”
• Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero
• Was born in Ermita, Manila
• He has extensively observed the theater and drama
school
11. POETRY
• Fernando Ma. Guerrero
• An author of “Crisalidas” (1914) and “To Spain”
• He was a Filipino politician, journalist, lawyer and
polyglot who became a significant figure during the
Philippine golden period of Spanish literature.
• Cecilio Apostol
• His poems were once used to teach Spanish language
under the Republic Act No. 1881
• He was born in Sta. Cruz, Manila
• Works: “Pentilicas” and “Crisalidad”
• Poetry collections representing Spanish writings at its
liveliest
12. POETRY
• Jose Corazon de Jesus
• Also known as “Huseng Batute”
• Is one of the greatest Philippine poets and is
acknowledged as the “King of Balagtasan”
• Works: “Mga Gintong Dahon” and “Sa Dakong
Silangan”
• Benigno R. Ramos
• Was an advocate for the independence of the Philippine
from the United States who collaborated with Japan
• Ramos was also noted as a writer of poetry with a
collection: “Mga Agam-agam” and other poems due for
publication
13. NOVELIST
• Patricio Mariano
• Was a Filipino nationalist, revolutionary, pundit, novelist
and short story writer.
• He was a katipunero member and the son of Petronilo
Mariano and Dionisia Geronimo
• Works: Anak ng Dagat, Ang Mga Anak ng Dalita, Ang
Tala sa Panghulo
• Carlos Bulosan
• Was an English language Filipino novelist and poet who
spent most of his life in the United States
• His best known work was the “America is in the Heart”
14. NOVELIST
• Faustino Aguilar
• Was a Filipino novelist, journalist and the editor of
the periodical “Taliba”
• He wrote novels in the social realist vein, including
Busabos ng Palad, Sa Ngalan ng Dios, and Ang Patawad
ng Patay
• He was also a member of the “Katipunan”
15. SHORT STORY
• Marcel Navarra
• Known as the “The Father of Modern Cebuano Literature”
• Born in Tuyom, Carcar
• He spent most of his life writing almost 80 short stories
which were published in Cebuano magazines
• Works: At Ako’y Inanod, Tungod sa Kayagang, Si Zosimo
• Manuel Arguilla
• Is an acclaimed short story writer as well as a patriot and a
guerilla hero
• He is known for his widely anthologize short story, “How my
brother brought home a wife”
• His other works are “Midsummer”, “Heat” and “A Son Is
Born”
16. SHORT STORY
• Magdalena Jalandoni
• Was a Filipino feminist writer
• She is now remembered as one of the most prolific
writers in the Hiligaynon language, from Western
Visayas
• Her works are said to have left permanent a
significant milestone in Philippine literature
• Works: Si Anabella, Sa Kapaang Sang Inaway (“In the
Heat of War”), Ang Dalaga sa Tindahan
17. SIGNIFICANT
DEVELOPMENTS
• The introduction of free public instruction for
all children of school age.
• The use of English as medium of instruction in
all levels of education in public school.
18. FREE PUBLIC
• Education made knowledge and information
accessible to a greater number of Filipinos
• The use of English as medium of instruction
introduced past Filipinos to Anglo-American
modes of thought, culture, and life ways that
would be embedded not only in literature
produced but also in the psyche of the
countries educated class.