Don Juan (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Lord George Gordon Byron
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: Late eighteenth century
- Genres: Satire, Poetry, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: Power, personal or social, England or English people, Eighteenth century, Wealth, Spain or Spanish people, Diplomacy or diplomats, Turkey or Turkish people
- Locales: England, Russia, Constantinople, Seville, Spain, Turkey
Places Discussed
*Seville. City in southwestern Spain. Calling it “a pleasant city,/ Famous for oranges and women,” Byron sets the tone and theme for his treatment of place. The poet is deliberately light-hearted about his legendary hero, pointing out how the provinciality of the city and of his upbringing makes him ignorant of sex and therefore susceptible to the charms of beautiful women. The restrictions of place stimulate the hero to seek a larger world of experience.
Greek island. Exiled from Seville, where he has been caught making love to another man’s wife,...
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