Don Juan (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Moliere
- First Published: 1682
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Social satire
- Time of Work: Seventeenth century
- Setting: Sicily
- Principal Characters: Don Juan, Sganarelle, Elvire, Don Louis, Don Carlos, Don Alonse, Statue of the commander
- Genres: Satire, Drama, Comedy of manners
- Subjects: Love or romance, Murder or homicide, Fear, Seventeenth century, Revenge, Sailing or sailors, Theater, Italy or Italians, Theaters, Evil
- Locales: Sicily, Italy
Critique:
DON JUAN is not really representative of Molière’s work , but it holds lasting interest for the modern reader for two reasons. Written to fatten the lean exchequer of his company’s theater because of the enforced closing of TARTUFFE, as well as to please his fellow actors, it is an excellent example of the skill and speed with which Molière could turn out a play. It also departs from his usual technique in making use of the melodramatic and supernatural elements which characterized the original Spanish drama from which it was adapted. Here, as in...
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