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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 dramatist Tirso de Molina.
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Don Juan (1819) First Ed. In English literature, Don Juan, written from 1819 to 1824 by the English poet Lord Byron, is a satirical, epic poem that portrays the Spanish folk legend of Don Juan, not as a womaniser as historically portrayed, but as a victim easily seduced by women. [1] As genre literature, Don Juan is an epic poem, written in ...
- Lord Byron
- 1819
Character List. Don Juan The son of an easygoing father and a strict mother who is doted on by his parents. At the age of sixteen he has an affair with Donna Julia. Don José Juan's father, who is unfaithful to his wife and careless of his reputation. Donna Inez Juan's mother, a learned woman plagued by the infidelity of her husband.
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 roguishness.
Don Juan: Canto 11. Don Juan. : Canto 11. And yet who can believe it! I would shatter. And wear my head, denying that I wear it. World (be it what you will) that that's no schism. Of the Truth's rays, spoil not my draught of spirit! Heaven's brandy, though our brain can hardly bear it.
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Other articles where Don Juan is discussed: Lord Byron: Life and career: …would write his greatest poem, Don Juan, a satire in the form of a picaresque verse tale. The first two cantos of Don Juan were begun in 1818 and published in July 1819. Byron transformed the legendary libertine Don Juan into an unsophisticated, innocent young man who, though he delightedly…
