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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.
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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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.
- Lord Byron
- 1819
Feb 16, 2021 · Don Juan is nowadays regarded as Byron’s crowning achievement and his greatest long poem. Unlike the Satanic self-dramatizing that was the source of his fame in the 19th century, in Manfred and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage especially, Don Juan shows Byron at his most self-aware, and the voice of the poem is very close to the….
May 29, 2018 · Don Juan (dŏn wän, jōō´ən, Span. dōn hwän), legendary profligate. He has a counterpart in the legends of many peoples, but the Spanish version of the great libertine has become the most universal.
Lord Byron’s verse novel Don Juan (1819–24), sardonic and casual, combined the colloquialism of medieval light verse with a sophistication that inspired a number of imitations. Read More.
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Don Juan es un personaje arquetípico de la literatura española que apareció por primera vez en una obra representada en 1630 titulada El Burlador de Sevilla y Convidado de piedra atribuida a Tirso de Molina 1 o a Andrés de Claramonte 2 y por segunda vez en 1630 en la famosa obra El burlador de Sevilla, atribuida a Tirso de Molina. 3 4 .
