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Don Juan ( Spanish: [doŋ ˈxwan] ), also known as Don Giovanni ( Italian ), is a legendary, fictional Spanish libertine who devotes his life to seducing women. The original version of the story of Don Juan appears in the 1630 play El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra ( The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest) by Tirso de Molina.
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Don Juan, fictitious character who is a symbol of libertinism. Originating in popular legend, he was first given literary personality in the tragic drama El burlador de Sevilla (1630; “The Seducer of Seville,” translated in The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest), attributed to the Spanish.
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May 29, 2018 · Don Juan—history and legend. While it is unclear whether Don Juan Tenorio—as he was most often called—was a real person, the dashing seducer had been a familiar figure in Spanish and Italian folk legend as early as the seventeenth century.
But how did the legend of Don Juan begin? The legend was born with “The Seducer/Trickster of Seville,” by Tirso de Molina, written in 1630. In this story, Don Juan kills Gonzalo, the father of one of the women he seduces, when the father hears his daughter’s screams and rushes to defend her honor.
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.
Dec 18, 2017 · Don Juan. The Trickster of Seville. The myth of Don Juan has permeated Western culture to such a degree that the expression “He’s a Don Juan” identifies a man as a “great lover” and pursuer of women. Thanks to the 19th-century romantic idea of Don Juan, he is something of a dashing individual, with a touch of admirable bravado. But ...
Don Juan is a unique approach to the already popular legend of the philandering womanizer immortalized in literary and operatic works. Byron’s Don Juan, the name comically anglicized to rhyme with “new one” and “true one,” is a passive character, in many ways a victim of predatory women, and more of a picaresque hero in his unwitting ...
