Don Juan (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Lord George Gordon Byron
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: Late eighteenth century
- Setting: Spain, Turkey, Russia, and England
- Principal Characters: Don Juan, Donna Inez, Donna Julia, Haidée, The Sultana, Catherine, Lady Adeline Amundeville, Duchess of Fitz-Fulke, Aurora Raby
- 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
The Story:
When Don Juan was a small boy, his father died, leaving the boy in the care of his mother, Donna Inez. Donna Inez was a righteous woman who had made her husband’s life miserable. She had her son tutored in the arts of fencing, riding, and shooting, and she herself attempted to rear him in a moral manner. The young Don Juan read widely in the sermons and lives of the saints, but he did not seem to absorb from his studies the qualities his mother thought essential.
At sixteen, he was a handsome lad much admired by his mother’s friends. Donna Julia, in...
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