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Don Juan (Spanish) or Don Giovanni (Italian) is a legendary, fictional libertine
Libertine

Libertine has come to mean one devoid of any restraints, especially one who ignores or even spurns religious norms, accepted morals, and forms of behaviour sanctioned by the larger society....
 whose story has been told many times by many authors. El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra
El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra

The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest is a play by Tirso de Molina, published in Spain around 1630 and set in the 14th century. Evidence suggests that it was the first written version of the Don Juan legend....
, by Tirso de Molina
Tirso de Molina

Tirso de Molina was a Spain Spanish Baroque literature dramatist and poet.Originally Gabriel T?llez, he was born in Madrid. He studied at University of Alcal?, joined the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy on November 4 1600, and entered the Monastery of San Antol?n at Guadalajara, Spain on January 21 1601....
, is a play set in the fourteenth century that was published in Spain around 1630. Evidence suggests it is the first written version of the Don Juan legend. Among the best known works about this character today are Molière
Molière

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, also known by his stage name Moli?re, was a French playwright and actor who is considered one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature....
's play Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre
Dom Juan

Dom Juan or The Feast with the Statue is a France play by Moli?re, based on the legend of Don Juan. Moli?re's characters Dom Juan and Sganarelle are the French counterpart to the Spanish Don Juan and Sancho....
 (1665), Byron's epic poem Don Juan
Don Juan (Byron)

Don Juan is a long, digressive satiric poem by George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, based on the Don Juan, which Byron reverses, portraying Juan not as a womaniser but someone easily seduced by women....
 (1821) and José Zorrilla's play Don Juan Tenorio
Don Juan Tenorio

Don Juan Tenorio: Drama religioso-fant?stico en dos partes , is a Play written in 1844 by Jos? Zorrilla. It is the more Romantic of the two principal Spanish-language literary interpretations of the Mythology of Don Juan....
 (1844).






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Don Juan (Spanish) or Don Giovanni (Italian) is a legendary, fictional libertine
Libertine

Libertine has come to mean one devoid of any restraints, especially one who ignores or even spurns religious norms, accepted morals, and forms of behaviour sanctioned by the larger society....
 whose story has been told many times by many authors. El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra
El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra

The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest is a play by Tirso de Molina, published in Spain around 1630 and set in the 14th century. Evidence suggests that it was the first written version of the Don Juan legend....
, by Tirso de Molina
Tirso de Molina

Tirso de Molina was a Spain Spanish Baroque literature dramatist and poet.Originally Gabriel T?llez, he was born in Madrid. He studied at University of Alcal?, joined the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy on November 4 1600, and entered the Monastery of San Antol?n at Guadalajara, Spain on January 21 1601....
, is a play set in the fourteenth century that was published in Spain around 1630. Evidence suggests it is the first written version of the Don Juan legend. Among the best known works about this character today are Molière
Molière

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, also known by his stage name Moli?re, was a French playwright and actor who is considered one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature....
's play Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre
Dom Juan

Dom Juan or The Feast with the Statue is a France play by Moli?re, based on the legend of Don Juan. Moli?re's characters Dom Juan and Sganarelle are the French counterpart to the Spanish Don Juan and Sancho....
 (1665), Byron's epic poem Don Juan
Don Juan (Byron)

Don Juan is a long, digressive satiric poem by George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, based on the Don Juan, which Byron reverses, portraying Juan not as a womaniser but someone easily seduced by women....
 (1821) and José Zorrilla's play Don Juan Tenorio
Don Juan Tenorio

Don Juan Tenorio: Drama religioso-fant?stico en dos partes , is a Play written in 1844 by Jos? Zorrilla. It is the more Romantic of the two principal Spanish-language literary interpretations of the Mythology of Don Juan....
 (1844). The most influential version of all is "Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni

Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and with Italian language libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It was premiered in the Estates Theatre in Prague on October 29, 1787 in music....
", an opera written by Lorenzo da Ponte
Lorenzo Da Ponte

Lorenzo Da Ponte was an Republic of Venice libretto and poet....
 with music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
, first performed in 1787 (with Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Casanova

Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt was a Republic of Venice adventurer and author. His main book Histoire de ma vie , part autobiography and part memoir, is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century....
 in the audience) and itself the source of inspiration for works by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Alexander Pushkin, Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard

S?ren Aabye Kierkegaard was a prolific 19th century Denmark philosopher and theologian. Kierkegaard strongly criticised both the Hegelianism of his time, and what he saw as the empty ceremony of the Church of Denmark....
, George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw, was an Irish people playwright.Although Shaw's first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, his talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays....
 and Albert Camus
Albert Camus

Albert Camus was an Algerian-born France author, Philosophy, and journalist who won the Nobel Prize in 1957. He is often associated with existentialism, but Camus refused this label....
.

Don Juan is used synonymously for "womanizer", especially in Spanish
Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
 slang
Slang

Slang is the use of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's dialect or language....
, and the term Don Juanism
Don Juanism

Don Juanism is a non-technical psychological descriptive term for a man who has a desire to have sex with many different partners and who may be a "seducer of women." The name is derived from the legendary Don Juan of opera and fiction, who seems in turn to have been patterned after an historical person, the Spanish noble Don Juan Tenorio....
 is sometimes used as a synonym for satyriasis.

Don Juan legend

Don Juan is a rogue and a libertine who takes great pleasure in seducing women and (in most versions) enjoys fighting their champions. Later, in a graveyard Don Juan encounters a statue of the dead father of a girl he has seduced, and, impiously, invites him to dine with him; the statue gladly accepts. The father's ghost arrives for dinner at Don Juan's house and in turn invites Don Juan to dine with him in the graveyard. Don Juan accepts, and goes to the father's grave where the statue asks to shake Don Juan's hand. When he extends his arm, the statue grabs hold and drags him away, to Hell
Hell

In many religious traditions, Hell is a place of suffering and punishment in the afterlife, often in the underworld. Religions with a linear Divinity history often depict Hell as endless ....
.

Pronunciation

In Castilian Spanish, Don Juan is . The usual American pronunciation is , with two syllables and a silent "J
J

J or j is a consonant in Esperanto orthography, representing a voiced postalveolar fricative , and is equivalent to the voiced postalveolar fricative, , or the voiced retroflex fricative, ....
". However, in Byron's epic poem it humorously rhymes with ruin and true one, suggesting that it was intended to have the trisyllabic spelling pronunciation , close to the common in Britain today.

Chronology of works derived from the story of Don Juan

  • 1630: Tirso de Molina
    Tirso de Molina

    Tirso de Molina was a Spain Spanish Baroque literature dramatist and poet.Originally Gabriel T?llez, he was born in Madrid. He studied at University of Alcal?, joined the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy on November 4 1600, and entered the Monastery of San Antol?n at Guadalajara, Spain on January 21 1601....
    's play El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra
    El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra

    The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest is a play by Tirso de Molina, published in Spain around 1630 and set in the 14th century. Evidence suggests that it was the first written version of the Don Juan legend....
  • 1643: Paolo Zehentner's play Promontorium Malae Spei
  • 1650: Giacinto Andrea Cicognini
    Giacinto Andrea Cicognini

    Giacinto Andrea Cicognini was an Italian playwright and librettist, and was the son of poet and playwright Jacopo Cicognini.In 1627, Cicognini graduated from the University of Pisa, and he lived in Florence from 1640 to 1645 where he have legal advice to the poet and playwright Giambattista Ricciardi....
    's play Il convitato di pietra
  • 1658: Dorimon (Nicolas Drouin)'s Le festin de pierre, ou le fils criminel
  • 1659: Jean Deschamps, Sieur de Villiers's play Le Festin de Pierre ou le Fils criminel
  • 1665: Molière
    Molière

    Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, also known by his stage name Moli?re, was a French playwright and actor who is considered one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature....
    's comedy Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre
    Dom Juan

    Dom Juan or The Feast with the Statue is a France play by Moli?re, based on the legend of Don Juan. Moli?re's characters Dom Juan and Sganarelle are the French counterpart to the Spanish Don Juan and Sancho....
  • 1669: Rosimon's Festin de pierre, ou l’athée foudroyé
  • 1676: Thomas Shadwell
    Thomas Shadwell

    Thomas Shadwell was an England poet and playwright who was appointed poet laureate in 1689....
    's play The Libertine
  • 17th century: L'ateista fulminato, Italian play by unknown author
  • 1714?: Antonio de Zamora's play No hay plazo que no se cumpla ni deuda que no se pague o convidado de piedra
  • 1736: Carlo Goldoni
    Carlo Goldoni

    Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was a celebrated Republic of Venice playwright and librettist, whom critics today rank among the European theatre's greatest authors....
    's play Don Giovanni Tenorio ossia Il dissoluto
  • 1761: Christoph Willibald Gluck
    Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck was an opera composer of the early classical period. After many years at the Habsburg court at Vienna, Gluck brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices that many intellectuals had been campaigning for over the years....
     and Gasparo Angiolini
    Gasparo Angiolini

    Gasparo Angiolini was an Italy dancer and choreographer, and composer. He was born in Florence, Italy and died in Milan....
    's ballet Don Juan
  • 1787: Giovanni Bertati
    Giovanni Bertati

    Giovanni Bertati , an Italians Libretto.In 1763, Bertati wrote his first libretto, La morte di Dimone , set to music by Antonio Tozzi. Two years later, L'isola della fortuna , based on Bertati's libretto and Andrea Luchesi's music, was performed in Vienna....
    's opera Don Giovanni, music by Giuseppe Gazzaniga
    Giuseppe Gazzaniga

    Giuseppe Gazzaniga was a member of the Teatro di San Carlo#The great age of Neapolitan opera of opera composers. He composed fiftyone operas and is considered to be one of the last Italy opera buffa composers....
  • 1787: Lorenzo da Ponte
    Lorenzo Da Ponte

    Lorenzo Da Ponte was an Republic of Venice libretto and poet....
    's opera Don Giovanni
    Don Giovanni

    Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and with Italian language libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It was premiered in the Estates Theatre in Prague on October 29, 1787 in music....
    , music by Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
  • 1813: E.T.A. Hoffmann
    E.T.A. Hoffmann

    Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann , better known by his pen name E.T.A. Hoffmann , was a Germany Romanticism author of fantasy and Horror fiction, a jurist, composer, music critic, drawing and caricature....
    's novella Don Juan (later collected in Fantasiestücke in Callots Manier)
  • 1821: Byron's epic poem Don Juan
    Don Juan (Byron)

    Don Juan is a long, digressive satiric poem by George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, based on the Don Juan, which Byron reverses, portraying Juan not as a womaniser but someone easily seduced by women....
  • 1829: Christian Dietrich Grabbe
    Christian Dietrich Grabbe

    Christian Dietrich Grabbe was a German dramatist.Born in Detmold, Principality of Lippe, he wrote many historical plays and is also known for his use of satire and irony....
    's play Don Juan und Faust
  • 1830: Pushkin's play ???????? ????? (Kamenny Gost, The Stone Guest
    The Stone Guest

    The Stone Guest is a poetic drama by Alexander Pushkin based on the Spain legend of Don Juan. The Stone Guest was written in 1830 as part of his four short plays known as the The Little Tragedies....
    ) set as an opera in 1872
  • 1831: Alexandre Dumas
    Alexandre Dumas, père

    Alexandre Dumas, p?re , born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world....
    ' play     Don Juan de Maraña
  • 1834: Prosper Mérimée
    Prosper Mérimée

    Prosper M?rim?e was a France dramatist, history, Archaeology, and short story writer. He is perhaps best known for his novella Carmen , which became the basis of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen....
    's novella     Les âmes du Purgatoire
  • 1840: José de Espronceda
    José de Espronceda

    File:Jose de espronceda.jpgJos? de Espronceda, baptised Jos? Ignacio Javier Oriol Encarnaci?n de Espronceda y Delgado was among the most important Spain Spanish Romance literature poets of the 19th century....
    's     El estudiante de Salamanca
    El estudiante de Salamanca

    The Student of Salamanca is a work by Spain Romantic poetry poet Jos? de Espronceda. It was published in fragments beginning in 1837, and remains incomplete....
  • 1841: Franz Liszt
    Franz Liszt

    Franz Liszt was a Kingdom of Hungary composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher.Liszt became renowned throughout Europe for his great skill as a performer during the 19th century....
    's Réminiscences de Don Juan
    Réminiscences de Don Juan

    R?miniscences de Don Juan is an operatic fantasia by Franz Liszt on themes from Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Liszt wrote the work in 1841 and published a two-piano version in 1877....
     on themes from the Mozart opera
  • 1843: Søren Kierkegaard
    Søren Kierkegaard

    S?ren Aabye Kierkegaard was a prolific 19th century Denmark philosopher and theologian. Kierkegaard strongly criticised both the Hegelianism of his time, and what he saw as the empty ceremony of the Church of Denmark....
    's     Either/or
    Either/Or

    Published in two volumes in 1843, Either/Or is an influential book written by the Danish philosopher S?ren Kierkegaard, exploring the aesthetic and ethical "phases" or "stages" of existence....
     in which he discusses Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
    's musical interpretation of     Don Giovanni
    Don Giovanni

    Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and with Italian language libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It was premiered in the Estates Theatre in Prague on October 29, 1787 in music....
  • 1844: Nikolaus Lenau
    Nikolaus Lenau

    Nikolaus Lenau was the nom de plume of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau , a Hungarian-Austrian poet....
    's play     Don Juan
  • 1844: José Zorrilla's play Don Juan Tenorio
    Don Juan Tenorio

    Don Juan Tenorio: Drama religioso-fant?stico en dos partes , is a Play written in 1844 by Jos? Zorrilla. It is the more Romantic of the two principal Spanish-language literary interpretations of the Mythology of Don Juan....
  • 1857: Don Juan in Hell- Charles Baudelaire
    Charles Baudelaire

    Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a nineteenth century French poetry, critic and translator. A controversial figure in his lifetime, Baudelaire's name has become a byword for literary and artistic Decadent movement....
  • 1862: Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
    Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

    Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy was a Russian poet, novelist and dramatist.Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy was born in Saint Petersburg to the famed family of Tolstoy....
    's verse drama     Don Juan
  • 1872: Alexander Dargomyzhsky
    Alexander Dargomyzhsky

    Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky was a 19th century Russian composer. He bridged the gap in Russian opera composition between Mikhail Glinka and the later generation of The Five and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky....
    's opera     The Stone Guest
    The Stone Guest (Dargomyzhsky)

    The Stone Guest is an opera in three acts by Alexander Dargomyzhsky. The libretto was taken almost verbatim from Alexander Pushkin's The Stone Guest in blank verse , with slight changes in wording and the interpolation of two songs indicated in the play....
     after Puskin
  • 1874: Guerra Junqueiro
    Guerra Junqueiro

    Abilio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro was a Portuguese people lawyer for the University of Coimbra, a high administrative employee, member of the Portuguese House of Representatives, journalist, author, and poet....
    's poem     A morte de D. João
  • 1878: The Finding of Don Juan by Haidee, painting by Ford Madox Brown
    Ford Madox Brown

    Ford Madox Brown was an England painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often William Hogarth version of the Pre-Raphaelite style....
  • 1883: Paul Heyse's "Don Juans Ende"
  • 1888: Richard Strauss
    Richard Strauss

    Richard Georg Strauss was a German composer of the late Romantic music and early modern eras, particularly of operas, Lieder and tone poems. Strauss was also a prominent Conducting....
    ' symphonic poem     Don Juan
    Don Juan (Strauss)

    Don Juan, op.20 is a tone poem for large orchestra by the Germany composer Richard Strauss, which was written in 1888. The composer conducted its premier on 11 November 1889 with the orchestra of the Weimar Opera, where he served as Court Kapellmeister....
  • 1903: George Bernard Shaw
    George Bernard Shaw

    George Bernard Shaw, was an Irish people playwright.Although Shaw's first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, his talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays....
    's play     Man and Superman
    Man and Superman

    Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw was written in 1903 as a four act drama, responding to those who had questioned Shaw as to why he had never written a play based on the Don Juan theme....
    ; the third act's dream sequence is often played by itself as Don Juan in Hell
  • 1902–1905: Ramón del Valle-Inclán
    Ramón del Valle-Inclán

    Ram?n Mar?a del Valle-Incl?n y de la Pe?a , Spain dramatist, novelist and member of the Spanish Generation of 98, is considered perhaps the most noteworthy and certainly the most radical dramatist working to subvert the traditionalism of the Spanish theatrical establishment in the early part of the 20th century....
    's     Las sonatas
  • 1906 : Ruperto Chapí
    Ruperto Chapí

    Ruperto Chap? y Lorente was a Spain composer, and co-founder of the Sociedad General de Autores.Chap? was the son of a Valencia, Spain barber....
    's opera     Margarita la tornera
    Margarita la tornera

    Margarita la tornera is a Spanish language opera by Ruperto Chap? with a libretto by Carlos Fern?ndez Shaw. It is based on a dramatic poem by Jos? Zorrilla....
    , based on José Zorrilla's dramatic poem. This features a seducer of women known as Don Juan Alarcon.
  • 1907: Guillaume Apollinaire
    Guillaume Apollinaire

    Wilhelm Albert Wlodzimierz Apolinary de Waz-Kostrowicki, known as Guillaume Apollinaire was a France poet, writer, and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother....
    's novel     Les exploits d'un jeune Don Juan
  • 1910: Gaston Leroux
    Gaston Leroux

    Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was a France journalist and author of detective fiction.In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera , which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the Phantom of the Opera starring Lon Chaney, Sr.; and Andrew Lloy...
    's novel     Phantom of the Opera, which includes an opera called Don Juan Triumphant
    Don Juan Triumphant

    Don Juan Triumphant is the name of a fictional opera written by the title character in the novel The Phantom of the Opera. In the musical adaptation, the concept is expanded as an Story within a story....
    .
  • 1910–1912: Aleksandr Blok's The Commander's Footsteps (???? ?????????).
  • 1912: Lesya Ukrainka
    Lesya Ukrainka

    Larysa Petrivna Kosach-Kvitka better known under her literary pseudonym Lesya Ukrainka , was one of Ukraine's best-known poets and writers and the foremost woman writer in Ukrainian literature....
    's     Stone Host (???'???? ????????), a dramatic poem.
  • 1913: Jacinto Grau
    Jacinto Grau

    Jacinto Grau Delgado was a Spain playwright associated with the Novecentismo movement....
    's play     Don Juan de Carillana; also, the play El burlador que no se burla (1927) and the essay Don Juan en el tiempo y en el espacio (1954)
  • 1921: Edmond Rostand
    Edmond Rostand

    Edmond Eug?ne Alexis Rostand was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism, and is best known for his play Cyrano de Bergerac ....
    's play     La dernière nuit de Don Juan
  • 1922: Azorín' Don Juan
  • 1926: Ramón Pérez de Ayala
    Ramón Pérez de Ayala

    Ram?n P?rez de Ayala was a Spain writer....
    's novel and play     Tigre Juan
  • 1926: Don Juan
    Don Juan (1926 film)

    Don Juan is a Warner Brothers film, directed by Alan Crosland. It was the first feature-length film with synchronized Vitaphone sound effects and musical soundtrack, though it has no spoken dialogue....
    , starring John Barrymore
    John Barrymore

    John Sidney Blyth Barrymore , was an American actor, frequently called the greatest of his generation. He first gained fame as a stage actor, lauded for his portrayals of Hamlet and Richard III ....
    , silent film with Vitaphone
    Vitaphone

    Vitaphone was a sound film process used on features and nearly 2,000 short subjects produced by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1930....
     soundtrack.
  • ?: Serafín and Joaquín Álvarez Quintero's play Don Juan
  • 1934: Miguel de Unamuno
    Miguel de Unamuno

    Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was an essayist, novelist, poetry, theatre and philosopher from Bilbao, Biscay, Spain....
    's     Don Juan
  • 1934: The Private Life of Don Juan
    The Private Life of Don Juan

    The Private Life of Don Juan is a film about the life of an aging Don Juan, based on the 1920 play L'homme ? la Rose by Henry Bataille....
    , Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.'s last film
  • 1934–1949: André Obey
    André Obey

    Andr? Obey was a prominent French playwright during the inter-war years, and into the 1950s.He began as a novelist and produced an autobiography novel about his adolescence le Joueur de triangle ....
    :     Don Juan
  • 1936: Ödön von Horváth
    Ödön von Horváth

    ?d?n von Horv?th, born December 9 1901, in Su?ak, a suburb of Rijeka,Austria-Hungary , and killed by a falling tree branch June 1 1938, in Paris, was one of the most important German-language playwrights and authors of the twentieth century....
    's     Don Juan kommt aus dem Krieg
  • 1938: Sylvia Townsend Warner
    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    Sylvia Nora Townsend Warner was an England novelist and poet....
    's novel "After the Death of Don Juan"
  • 1940: Le Mythe de Sisyphe:Albert Camus
    Albert Camus

    Albert Camus was an Algerian-born France author, Philosophy, and journalist who won the Nobel Prize in 1957. He is often associated with existentialism, but Camus refused this label....
    . Published by Librarire Gallimard (1942) and by Alfred A. Knopf
    Alfred A. Knopf

    Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York City publishing house, founded by Alfred A. Knopf in 1915. It was acquired by Random House in 1960 and is now part of the Knopf Publishing Group at Random House....
     (1955,1983) and First Vintage International Editions (1991) in English as The Myth of Sisyphus
    The Myth of Sisyphus

    The Myth of Sisyphus is a philosophical essay by Albert Camus. It comprises about 120 pages and was published originally in 1942 in French language as Le Mythe de Sisyphe; the English translation by Justin O'Brien followed in 1955....
     and other essays. In Camus' anti-suicide treatise, Don Juan is one of three 'Absurd Men', 'heroes' who overcome life with their attitude.
  • 1942: Paul Goodman
    Paul Goodman (writer)

    Paul Goodman was an American sociologist, poet, writer, and public intellectual. Goodman is now mainly remembered as the author of Growing Up Absurd and an activist on the pacifist Left in the 1960s and an inspiration to that era's student movement....
    's novel     Don Juan or, The Continuum of the Libido, edited by Taylor Stoehr, 1979.
  • 1944: Josef Toman Don Juan
  • 1946: Suzanne Lilar
    Suzanne Lilar

    Suzanne, Baroness Lilar was a Flemish people Belgian essayist, novelist, and playwright writing in French language. She was the wife of the Belgian Minister of Justice Albert Lilar and mother of the writer Fran?oise Mallet-Joris and the art historian Marie Fredericq-Lilar....
    , play "Le Burlador", an original reinterpretation of the myth of Don Juan from the female perspective that revealed a profound capacity for psychological analysis.
  • 1949: Adventures of Don Juan
    Adventures of Don Juan

    Adventures of Don Juan, known in the UK as The New Adventures of Don Juan, is a 1948 in film adventure film romance film made by Warner Bros.....
    , film starring Errol Flynn
    Errol Flynn

    Errol Leslie Flynn was an Australian-born film actor, known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his flamboyant lifestyle....
  • 1953: Max Frisch
    Max Frisch

    Max Frisch was a Switzerland architect, playwright and novelist, regarded as highly representative of German literature after World War II. In his creative works Frisch paid particular attention to issues relating to problems of human identity , individuality, responsibility, morality and political commitment....
    's     Don Juan oder die Liebe zur Geometrie; also Nachträgliches zu Don Juan
  • 1954: Ronald Frederick Duncan's play Don Juan
  • 1955: Ingmar Bergman
    Ingmar Bergman

    Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Sweden director, writer and Film producer for film, stage and television. He depicted bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his explorations of the human condition....
    's play     Don Juan
  • 1956: Buddy Holly
    Buddy Holly

    Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
    's song     Modern Don Juan
  • 1957: Georges Bataille
    Georges Bataille

    Georges Bataille was a French people writer. Although subsequent philosophers have been significantly influenced by his thought, Bataille tended not to refer to himself as a philosophy....
    's novel "Blue of Noon
    Blue of Noon

    Blue of Noon is a transgressive novella of erotic fiction written in 1935, and its French author, Georges Bataille was a desperate anti-fascist, as can be seen from the content of this particular work....
    ," an adaptation of the Don Juan story set in 1930s fascist Europe
  • 1958: Henry de Montherlant
    Henry de Montherlant

    Henry-Marie-Joseph Millon de Montherlant or Henry Millon de Montherlant was a France essayist, novelist and one of the leading French dramatists of the twentieth century....
    's play     Don Juan
  • 1959: Roger Vailland
    Roger Vailland

    Roger Vailland was a France novelist, essayist, and screenwriter.Vailland's novels include Dr?le de jeu , Les mauvais coups , Un jeune homme seul , 325 000 francs , and La loi , winner of the Prix Goncourt....
    's play     Monsieur Jean
  • 1960: Ingmar Bergman
    Ingmar Bergman

    Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Sweden director, writer and Film producer for film, stage and television. He depicted bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his explorations of the human condition....
     film     Djävulens öga(The Devil's Eye
    The Devil's Eye

    The Devil's Eye is a 1960 cinema of Sweden film directed by Ingmar Bergman....
    )
  • 1963: Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
    Gonzalo Torrente Ballester

    Gonzalo Torrente Ballester was a Galician writer in Spanish language. He was born in Serantes, Ferrol, Galicia , and received his first education there, subsequently attending the universities of University of Santiago de Compostela and Oviedo....
    's novel     Don Juan
  • 1969: Jan Švankmajer
    Jan Švankmajer

    Jan ?vankmajer is a Czech Republic surrealism artist. His work spans several media. He is known for his surreal animations and features, which have greatly influenced other artists such as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, The Brothers Quay and many others....
    's     Don Šajn (Don Juan); a short retelling of the Don Juan legend featuring live-action, stop-motion animation, and marionettes.
  • 1970: The Stoned Guest
    The Stoned Guest (album)

    The Stoned Guest is "the premiere recording of the The Stoned Guest by P. D. Q. Bach". It was released on Vanguard Records in 1970....
    , a half-act opera by P. D. Q. Bach
    P. D. Q. Bach

    P. D. Q. Bach is a fictional composer invented by musical satirist "Professor" Peter Schickele. In a running gag that Schickele has used in a four-decade-long career, he performs "discovered" works of this forgotten member of the Bach family....
  • 1973: Don Juan ou Si Don Juan était une femme..., a film starring Brigitte Bardot
    Brigitte Bardot

    Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot is a French actress, former model , singer and Animal rights. In 2007 she was named among Empire 's 100 Sexiest Film Stars....
  • 1974: Derek Walcott
    Derek Walcott

    Derek Alton Walcott is a West Indies poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who writes mainly in English language. Born in Castries, St. Lucia, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992....
    's play,     The Joker of Seville
  • 1975: Lars Gyllensten
    Lars Gyllensten

    Lars Johan Wictor Gyllensten was a Sweden author and physician, and a member of the Swedish Academy, which has the aim of furthering the "purity, vigour and majesty" of the Swedish language and selects the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature each year....
    's novel     I skuggan av Don Juan (In the shadow of Don Juan)
  • 1977: Joni Mitchell
    Joni Mitchell

    Joni Mitchell, Order of Canada is a Canada musician, songwriter, and Painting.Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Western Canada and then busking on the streets of Toronto....
    's song and album,     Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
  • 1980: New York City no-wave artists Mars
    MARS

    In cryptography, MARS is a block cipher that was IBM's submission to the Advanced Encryption Standard process. MARS was selected as an AES finalist in August 1999, after the AES2 conference in March 1999, where it was voted as the fifth and last finalist algorithm....
     and DNA
    DNA

    Deoxyribonucleic acid is a nucleic acid that contains the genetics instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms and some viruses....
     recorded a collaborative opera based on Don Giovanni
    Don Giovanni

    Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and with Italian language libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It was premiered in the Estates Theatre in Prague on October 29, 1787 in music....
     entitled John Gavanti
    John Gavanti

    OverviewJohn Gavanti is a "No Wave opera" originally released in 1980. It was written by Mark Cunningham , Sumner Crane , China Burg , Ikue Mori and Arto Lindsay ....
  • 1985: A comparison is made between Marius (a main character who falls in love) and Don Juan in Les Misérables (by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg).
  • 1987: Post-minimalist composer Elodie Lauten
    Elodie Lauten

    Elodie Lauten is a composer described as postminimalist or a microtonalist. She is a former student of her father Errol Parker and of LaMonte Young, Dinu Ghezzo, and Akhmal Parwez....
     wrote an opera based on a feminist variation of the legend entitled "The Death of Don Juan"
  • 1988: The Pet Shop Boys
    Pet Shop Boys

    Pet Shop Boys are an English people electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main Singing, Keyboard instruments and occasionally guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards and occasionally on vocals....
     song "Don Juan", which used the story as a metaphor for the seduction of the Balkans
    Balkans

    The Balkans is the historical name of a geographic subregion of southeastern Europe. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains, which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia....
     by Nazism
    Nazism

    Nazism, officially National Socialism , refers to the ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Workers? Party under Adolf Hitler, and the policies adopted by the dictatorial government of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945....
     during the 1930s
  • 1990: Almeida Faria's novel O Conquistador (The Conqueror).
  • 1991: Georges Pichard
    Georges Pichard

    Georges Pichard was a France comics artist, known for numerous Bande dessin?e Franco-Belgian comics magazines covers, serial publications and albums, stereotypically featuring partially exposed voluptuous women....
    's     Exploits d'un Don Juan, comic from Apollinaire
    Guillaume Apollinaire

    Wilhelm Albert Wlodzimierz Apolinary de Waz-Kostrowicki, known as Guillaume Apollinaire was a France poet, writer, and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother....
    's novel
  • 1992: The song, "The Statue Got Me High
    The Statue Got Me High

    The Statue Got Me High is a song and an Extended play by They Might Be Giants.Tracks 2 and 3 also appear on the compilation Then: The Earlier Years....
    " by They Might Be Giants
    They Might Be Giants

    They Might Be Giants is a Grammy Award-winning Music of the United States alternative rock band which began as a duo of John Flansburgh and John Linnell, and currently also includes Marty Beller, Dan Miller , and Danny Weinkauf....
    , is a contemporary, semi-abstract retelling of     Don Giovanni.
  • 1995: Don Juan DeMarco
    Don Juan DeMarco

    Don Juan DeMarco is a 1995 film starring Johnny Depp as John R. DeMarco, a man who believes himself to be Don Juan, the greatest lover in the world....
    , film starring Johnny Depp
    Johnny Depp

    Johnny Depp is an American actor known for his portrayals of offbeat, eccentric characters such as Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series and Edward Scissorhands....
     in the role of Don Juan, and also starring Marlon Brando
    Marlon Brando

    Marlon Brando, Jr. was an Academy Award-winning American actor whose body of work spanned over half a century. He is widely considered one of the greatest actors of all time, and was named the fourth AFI's 100 Years......
  • 1997: David Ives
    David Ives

    David Ives is a contemporary American playwright. A native of South Chicago, Ives attended a minor Catholic seminary and Northwestern University and, after some years' interval, Yale School of Drama, where he received an MFA in playwriting....
    ' comedy     Don Juan in Chicago
  • 2003: Gregory Maupin's play Don Juan, A Comedy (a new adaptation)
  • 2004: Peter Handke
    Peter Handke

    Peter Handke is an avant-garde Austrian novelist and playwright....
    's novel     Don Juan (erzählt von ihm selbst) ("Don Juan (Told by Himself)")
  • 2004: Georgi Gospodnov's play D.J.
  • 2005: José Saramago
    José Saramago

    Jos? de Sousa Saramago, Order of St. James of the Sword is a Nobel Prize for Literature Portugal novelist, playwright and journalist....
    's play     Don Giovanni ou O Dissoluto Absolvido (Don Giovanni or The Dissolute Acquitted).
  • 2005: Jim Jarmusch
    Jim Jarmusch

    Jim Jarmusch is an United States independent filmmaker and script writer....
    's film     Broken Flowers
    Broken Flowers

    Broken Flowers is a 2005 in film comedy-drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and produced by Jon Kilik and Stacey Smith. Its main actors are Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright , Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone, Frances Conroy, Tilda Swinton, Julie Delpy, and Mark Webber ....
    .
  • 2006: Andrzej Bart's novel Don Juan raz jeszcze (Don Juan: once again)
  • 2006: Joel Beers' play The Don Juan Project (an examination of the myth's relevance in contemporary times)
  • 2006: Don Juan in Soho
    Don Juan in Soho

    Don Juan in Soho is a play by the United Kingdom playwright Patrick Marber after Moli?re .Directed by Michael Grandage, it premiered at the Donmar Warehouse theatre in London on 6 December 2006, running until 10 February 2007,...
    , a play by Patrick Marber
    Patrick Marber

    Patrick Albert Crispin Marber is an England comedian, playwright, director, actor and screenwriter....
  • 2007: Douglas Carlton Abrams's novelThe Lost Diary of Don Juan
  • 2008 Cinque variazioni sul "Don Giovanni" di Da Ponte-Mozart, five plays of Vittorio Caratozzolo
  • 2008 - 2009: Emma Rice's play Don John


Also there is a book from Jozef Toman with name The life and death of don Miguel de Manara. Both the Flynn and Fairbanks versions turn Don Juan into a likeable rogue, rather than the heartless seducer that he is usually presented as being. The Flynn movie even has him successfully foiling a treasonous plot in the Spanish royal court. Shaw's play turns him into a philosophical character who enjoys contemplating the purpose of life. Beers' play turns him into a poetic, epic character recoiling from the debasing popular image of womanizer and cheap lover.

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