A Romantic interpretation of the Don Juan story, it shifts away from the moralistic theme of Tirso de Molina's original play. In the first part of the drama, the hero is still the demonic rake who plagues the Sevilla of Molina. However, don Juan falls in love with doña Inez whose lovely beauty and virtue incites a change (however dubious) in don Juan's character. At the close of the first part (Act IV) don Juan murders doña Inez's father and his cuckolded friend, Don Luís Mejía. The second part begins, five years having transpired, don Juan having been pardoned and thus allowed to return to Sevilla. The protagonist is however murdered by vengeful peers. In a state between life and death, don Juan is given a chance to repent--which he eventually accepts. This carefree character is much more conflicted than Molina's original, and highlights the manner in which the values, for which the archetypes stand, can be reinterpreted. Zorilla's play (and don Juan's final repentence) is often understood as an assertion of the author's conservativism and Catholic faith. Romanticism was a secular and intellectual movement in the history of ideas that originated in late 18th century Western Europe. ... Don Juan is a legendary fictional libertine, whose story has been told many times by different authors. ... Tirso de Molina (October, 1571 - March 12, 1648) was a Spanish dramatist and poet. ... An archetype is an idealized model of a person, object, or concept from which similar instances are derived, copied, patterned, or emulated. ...
It has become a tradition of Spanish theater to represent el Tenorio on All Saints Day. This article is about the Christian holiday. ...
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Don Juan Tenorio from Project Gutenberg in Spanish with English translation
DonJuanTenorio owes a great deal to this earlier version, as recognized by Zorrilla himself in 1880 in his Recuerdos del tiempo viejo (Memories of the Old Times), although the author curiously confuses de Molina with another writer of the same era, Agustín Moreto.
DonJuan suggests that he and don Luis enter into another bet: donJuan must sleep with doña Ana in the next six days, or don Luis may kill him.
DonJuan is back in the cemetery, led there by don Gonzalo's ghost.
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