1840s Plays (Study Guide) - 1840 Plays, 1841 Plays, 1842 Plays, 1843 Plays, 1844 Plays, 1848 Plays, 1849 Plays, Don Juan Tenorio (Paperback)

This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1840 Plays, 1841 Plays, 1842 Plays, 1843 Plays, 1844 Plays, 1848 Plays, 1849 Plays, Don Juan Tenorio, London Assurance, Marriage, Blanche Heriot, Kanjinch, Pippa Passes, Fortune's Fool, He Will Go on a Spree, the Tsar's Bride, Les Burgraves. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Don Juan Tenorio: Drama religioso-fantastico en dos partes (Don Juan Tenorio: Religious-Fantasy Drama in Two Parts), is a play written in 1844 by Jose Zorrilla. It is the more Romantic of the two principal Spanish-language literary interpretations of the myth of Don Juan. The other is the 1630 El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra (The Trickster of Seville and the Guest of Stone), which is attributed to Tirso de Molina. Don Juan Tenorio 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, Agustin Moreto. Statue of Don Juan Tenorio in Seville (square of Refinadores, barrio de Santa Cruz, jardines de Murillo)In the first part of the drama, the protagonist is still the demonic rake described by de Molina (he is called a demon and even Satan himself on more than one occasion). The story begins with Don Juan meeting Don Luis in a crowded wine shop in Seville so that the two can find out which of them has won the bet that they made one year ago: each expected himself to be able to conquer more women and kill more men than the other. Naturally, Don Juan wins on both counts. People in the crowd ask him if he isn't afraid that someday there will be consequences for his actions, but Don Juan replies that he only thinks about the present. It is then revealed that both cab...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1179745