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Don Juan
The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
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Don Juan, character derived from an old Spanish legend, who first found vital expression in
Tirso de Molina's El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra (
The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest,
c.1630) and has since become a constantly recurring figure in European literature. There is no evidence for his historical existence. Tirso's play combines two plots derived from separate sources, the first being concerned with the character and activities of the hero, the second with his mocking invitation to dinner to the marble statue, who accepts it and brings retribution upon Don Juan by supernatural means for his many crimes.
Among the many works on the same theme are Mozart's opera
Don Giovanni (1787),
Byron's poem
Don Juan (1819–24),
Molière's Le Festin de pierre (1665), an Italian version by
Goldoni, and a Russian one by
Pushkin, several works in Spanish, the best being Zorrilla y Moral's
Don Juan Tenorio (1844),
Rostand's La Dernière Nuit de Don Juan (
c.1910), Horváth's
Don Juan Comes Back from the War (1937),
Frisch's Don Juan, oder Die Liebe zur Geometrie (1953), and Ronald Duncan's
Don Juan and The Death of Satan (both 1956). Don Juan also appears in the third act of Shaw's
Man and Superman (1905), and in Tennessee
Williams's Camino Real (1953).
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'Don Juan' plays with its extremes.(SHOW)(THEATER)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 2/3/2006; 700+ words
; ...WASHINGTON TIMES Those expecting a "Don Juan" celebrating the antics of a serial...French and English versions of "Don Juan" were so heavily censored and watered...when Moliere's company performed "Don Juan" before King Louis XIV, the first...
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San Juan seeks San Juan mayoralty
Newspaper article from: Filipino Reporter; 3/4/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...tumultuous 70s, Erick A. San Juan was a young and idealistic radical...Marcos. Like a modern-day Don Quixote, he flailed away at...the Lakas party has tapped San Juan to be its mayoralty candidate in the municipality of San Juan, one of the key communities...
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'Don Juan' Struts His Hour Upon the Stage; Turning Up the Volume On Moliere's Charmer
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...reimagined adaptation of Moliere's "Don Juan." The manic energy infusing the...chortle! Much of Wadsworth's "Don Juan" is sharply drawn and stylishly staged...questions of piety and corruption, "Don Juan" makes an apt companion piece to...
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Juan Diego: the saint that never was. (Physician-Assisted Suicide, Pro and Con).
Newspaper article from: Free Inquiry; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...knew never existed. I refer to Juan Diego, the Aztec Indian who...sixteenth century, the very name "Juan Diego" meant something like...not only unknown, but really don't matter. Over the centuries...inquests into the reality of Juan Diego. It's an important problem...
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Juan José Veloz, demasiado joven, demasiado pronto...(nadador Mexicano)(TT: Juan Jose Veloz, too young, too soon...)(TA: Mexican swimmer)
Magazine article from: Proceso; 1/16/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...pero mi esposa no lo dej", comenta don Juan Antonio. Ms tarde ingres a la Acutica...septiembre de 1982, es el hijo menor de don Juan Antonio Veloz y doa Hilda Rosario...triunfar en otras cosas tambin". Don Juan Antonio, empresario que dirige...
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The myth of Don Juan and feminine sensibility: a new turning point?
Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies; 6/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; Don Juan is above all an exquisite literary figure...these other characters, the origins of Don Juan, the dissolute libertine who meets his...oral tradition in Spain, thus giving to Don Juan the legendary dimension of a historical...
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 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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ARTIST JUAN CRUZ DECIDES HE NEEDS A NEW LANDSCAPE.(Local)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 10/5/2003; 700+ words
; ...needing a steady paycheck. "Juan has an immense amount of talent...commercial projects: Hall Groat. Juan says he decided early on he wanted...to invest in art because they don't know what's going to happen...York City from Puerto Rico when Juan was 5. He went to prison as...
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Teenage Diaries - Juan's Story
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 8/5/1996; 700+ words
; ...sitting at the kitchen [sound of Juan's mother talking in Spanish] JUAN: [laughs] My mama is just...about something you- maybe you don't know cause my nickname here...rest of my live. What's up? JUAN'S BROTHER: What's up? JUAN...
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 "Reforma (México D.F., México)")
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Mexicar/ Pobre Juan Diego.(Nacional)
Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México); 2/7/2002; 700+ words
; ...en la existencia y santidad de Juan Diego no busquen razones, pues...la existencia y la santidad de Juan Diego forma parte de sus creencias...Avisados estn. No poseo el don de escribir la verdad, simplemente...en la existencia y santidad de Juan Diego no busquen razones, pues...
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Cyrano y Don Juan.(personajes literarios; análisis)(TT: Cyrano and Don Juan.)(TA: literature characters; analysis)
Magazine article from: Epoca; 2/14/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...que se batan Cyrano de Bergerac y Don Juan Tenorio, dos de los grandes espadachines...la Literatura universal, y que era Don Juan el que acertaba a asestar una cuchillada...contemplado la escena, preguntaba a Don Juan: "Pero, por qu le habis matado...
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Juan De Austria, Don (1547–1578)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...Germany, to commoner Barbara Blomberg, Don Juan, the natural son of Emperor Charles...grandees, but in 1575 he yielded to Don Juan's being addressed as "Highness." Charles hoped Don Juan might enter the clergy, but during...
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Juan Carlos I
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...s fascist dictatorship in 1939, the father of Juan Carlos, Don Juan de Borb ó n y Brattenberg, became a pretender...Franco declared that after his retirement or death Juan Carlos, and not Don Carlos (the father of Juan Carlos), would become...
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Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón: 1938—: King of Spain
Book article from: Contemporary Hispanic Biography
...Victoria. Juan Carlos' father, Don Juan de Borb ó n y Battenberg...King Alfonso XIII, abdicated in Don Juan's favor that year. By then, Spain...proclaimed him successor, bypassing Don Juan and causing a rift that would endure...
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Don Juan
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Don Juan, character derived from an old Spanish...who accepts it and brings retribution upon Don Juan by supernatural means for his many crimes...opera Don Giovanni (1787), Byron's poem Don Juan (1819–24), Moliè...
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Juan de Oñate
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...important northern outposts. Juan de O ñ ate was born in Mexico. His father, Don Crist ó bal de O...are George P. Hammond, Don Juan de O ñ ate and the...New Mexico (1927), and Don Juan de O ñ ate: Colonizer...
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