El Burlador De Sevilla English

Abviewer 12. Jahr 1630 in Tirso de Molinas' El Burlador de Sevilla' in verschiedensten Formen in der Literatur immer wieder zum Thema gemacht wurde. Mozart's other operatic masterpiece Don Giovanni, the librettist of which was also Da Ponte, is based on the Spanish theme of Don Juan, which, in various forms. Burlador de Sevilla y el convidado de piedra. Uniform series Hispanic classics. Golden-Age drama. Notes Includes bibliographical references (pages xli-xliii). Parallel Spanish text and English translation. Subject headings Juan, Don (Legendary character)-Drama. Other subjects Drama in Spanish, 1516-1700 - Spanish-English parallel texts.

Jornada Tres

Batricio becomes upset by Don Juan’s attitude at the dinner where he monopolized Aminta and expresses his frustration and anger. When Don Juan enters to talk to him, Don Juan easily convinces Batricio that Aminta and Don Juan are already lovers. He leaves and Don Juan remarks that he tricked him by appealing to Batricio’s honor. He goes to speak to Aminta’s father, Gaseno. Aminta tells Belisa of her worries about Batricio who has been jealous and melancholy all day. She wonders about Don Juan's identity and what he wants. In the next scene, Don Juan enters with Catalinón and Gaseno, who has promised his daughter to Don Juan. After he leaves, Catalinón warns Don Juan that Isabela waits to marry him. Don Juan says they will leave after he seduces Aminta. Catalinón tells him that God will take his vengeance on him someday but
Don Juan refuses to listen and says he is young and does not need to worry about behaving yet. Catalinón leaves and Aminta, dressed for bed, comes in. Surprised to see Don Juan instead of Batricio, she tells him to leave but the trickster convinces her that Batricio has forgotten her. Don Juan seduces her. Isabela and her servant Fabio are travel toward Seville for her wedding. They encounter Tisbea, who tells them of her encounter with Don Juan. Isabela invites her to travel with them. Meanwhile in Seville, Don Juan and Catalinón talk in a cemetery where they find the tomb of Don Gonzalo de Ulloa. The inscription on the tomb speaks of vengeance. Don Juan jokingly invites the statue to dine with him that night. They return to his house for dinner and the stone statue of Don Gonzalo comes to dinner as invited. Don Juan feels frightened at first but bluffs his way through dinner.
A very nervous Catalinón makes jokes all through the meal. The statue invites them to dine with him the next day at his tomb. In the castle, Don Diego and the king of Castilla try to arrange marriages for Don Juan with Doña Isabela, Mota with Doña Ana, and Octavio with a woman of his court. Duke Octavio arrives and asks for permission to fight with Don Juan but the king refuses. The king and Don Diego leave and Gaseno and Aminta arrive. They tell Octavio that Don Juan promised to marry Aminta but seduced her and left. Octavio leaves with them, hoping to use Aminta to ruin Don Juan´s wedding. Don Juan and Catalinón return to the churchyard. They eat with the stone statue who serves them serpents and scorpions.
Afterward the statue takes Don Juan by the hand and drags him down to Hell. At the palace, the king and Don Diego encounter Batricio and Gaseno, Tisbea and Isabela, Aminta and Octavio, and Mota. They all complain of Don Juan. Catalinón comes in and recounts the death of Don Juan. The king declares this justice from heaven and marries off Octavio with Isabela, Mota with Doña Ana, and Batricio with Aminta. Only Tisbea remains unmarried.

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The play starts with Don Juan deceiving the young Duchess Isabela into having sexual intercourse with him by disguising himself as her suitor, el Duque Octavio. When she discovers the deception and calls for help, Don Juan's uncle, Don Pedro, comes to arrest the rapist. He soon realizes the criminal is his own nephew and decides to let him go. Before, however, he reprimands him and reminds him of a previous incident of a similar nature: 'no bast emprender con ira y fuerza extraa tan gran traicin en Espaa con otra noble mujer, sino en Npoles tambin'. In spite of the fact that Don Juan is unrepentant, Don Diego goes to see the king and informs him that the man that assaulted Isabella was Octavio. In accordance with the laws of the times, Octavio, now a suspected rapist, is ordered by the king to marry the dishonored Isabela.

El Burlador De Sevilla English Translation

In the meanwhile, Don Juan escapes to Spain. During the trip his boat is shipwrecked and himself and his servant Catalinn are washed up on the shores of Tarragona (Spain), where a young lady called Tisbea comes to their rescue. Foreseeing his master's intentions ('por Tibea estoy muriendo, que es buena moza'), Catalinn shows his disapproval but Don Juan ignores him, quickly reminding him it is not the first time and will not be the last ('si burlar es hbito antiguo mo, qu me preguntas sabiendo mi condicin'). Don Juan makes her his second victim after promising to marry her. As he leaves, she is overwhelmed by guilt and leaves with the intention of drowning herself in the ocean.

El Burlador De Sevilla English Translation Act 1

In Seville, the king is in talks with the Comendador Don Gonzalo, a nobleman and ageing knight, discussing the possibility of an arranged marriage between his daughter Ana and Don Juan. Don Gonzalo is happy with the suggestion and goes to consult his daughter.
In the meantime, Don Diego Tenorio, Juan's father, informs the king that the man who raped Isabela was not Octavio, but Juan, and confirms it by presenting a letter from his brother Don Pedro. Don Diego, ashamed of his son's behavior, tells him he has been evicted from Seville as a punishment for the crime he committed in Naples. The marriage plans that the king had contemplated are, of course, abandoned.
El Burlador De Sevilla English

At the same time, Don Juan meets his old friend the Marqus de la Mota, an admirer of Don Juan's adventures and of his condition of womanizer. He confesses his love for Ana and admires her beauty, stimulating the curiosity of Don Juan. However, the Marqus is sad as he knows her engaged to someone else (Don Juan!). When he tries to arrange a meeting with her, Don Juan, who had secretly followed the steps of his friend, intercepts the messages between the Marqus and Ana. As he contemplates his next 'burla', Don Juan laughs at the love of the Marqus, 'Desdichado amante! Hay suceso semejante Ya de la burla me ro', and it is him who attends the date wearing his friend's cape.

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At Don Gonzalo's house, Ana is deceived by Don Juan. When she realizes, she calls upon her father who comes to her aid and finds death by Don Juan's sword. Before passing away, Don Gonzalo swears to haunt Don Juan [2]. The murderer leaves the house and returns the cape to the Marqus, who is in turn arrested for a crime he did not commit and sentenced to death. Don Juan and his ..Download file to see next pagesRead More