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Don Juan
Fictitious character who
is generally regarded as a symbol of libertinism. Libertinism is immoral behavior that is
not restrained by conscience or conventions.
The legend tells how Don Juan seduced a
girl of noble family and then killed her father when he sought revenge. Later Don Juan saw
a ghost of the father and flippantly invited it to dinner. The ghost arrived to foreshadow
Don Juan's own death.
Don Juan was first given literary
personality in the 1630 tragic drama 'The Seducer of Seville' by the Spanish dramatist
Tirso de Molina. In this version the drama is heightened by Don Juan's attractive
qualities his lively character, arrogant courage, and sense of humor. The drama's power
comes from its rapid pace. There is growing tension as Don Juan's enemies hound him to
self-destruction. He refuses to repent and falls to eternal damnation. Through Tirso's
version, Don Juan became a universal figure, comparable to Hamlet and Don Quixote.
In the 17th century the Don Juan story
was incorporated into the repertoire of strolling Italian players who carried the legend
to France. By the 19th century many foreign versions of the Don Juan legend existed. Some
of these musical and literary works include Mozart's opera 'Don Giovanni', produced in
1787, Lord Byron's satiric poem 'Don Juan' (1819-24), and George Bernard Shaw's drama 'Man
and Superman' (performed in 1907), including the well-known third act, 'Don Juan in Hell'.
Related
audio:
Don Juan.
Related
books:
Bibliography of
the Myth of Don Juan in Literary History.
Byron's Don Juan
(Landmarks of World Literature).
Byron's Don Juan
and the Don Juan Legend.
Concordance to
Byron's 'Don Juan'.
Don Giovanni:
Myths of Seduction and Betrayal (Parallax).
Don Juan.
Don Juan (Penguin
Classics).
Don Juan and
Dulcineas.
Don Juan and
Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics).
Don Juan and the
Point of Honor: Seduction, Patriarchal Society, and Literary Tradition (Penn State
Studies in Romance Literatures).
Don Juan: Cantos
I and II 1819 (Revolution and Romanticism, 1789-1834).
Don Juan in the
Village.
Don Juan, Notes.
Don Juan Theme:
An Annotated Bibliography.
Last Days of Don
Juan.
Myths of Modern
Individualism: Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Robinson Crusoe.
The Complete
Poetical Works: Don Juan (Oxford English Texts).
The Don Juan
Legend Before Mozart: With a Collection of Eighteenth Century Opera Librettos.
The Theatre of
Don Juan: A Collection of Plays and Views, 1630-1963.
Click
here for more related
books.
Further
info:
Byron's Don Juan.
Don Juan.
Don Juan.
Don Juan as
Psychopath.
Dramatic
Genre and the Don Juan Theme.
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