Don Juan Tenorio

Don Juan Tenorio
Author: José Zorrilla
Publisher: Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Don Juan (Legendary character)
ISBN: 9781588712202

When Jose Zorrilla completed Don Juan Tenorio in 1844 little did he know that he had just written what would become the most popular Spanish play of all time. While the opening performance was a modest one, Zorrilla's interpretation of the legendary Don Juan myth was so well-liked by the public that, in a very short time, its success was overwhelming. Shortly after, Don Juan Tenorio became not only the most popular play in Spain, but in the entire Spanish-speaking world, and to this day it is considered the chief representative of Spanish Romantic theater and the masterpiece of all Don Juan adaptations. This new translation of Zorrilla's classic play is unique in mirroring not only the content, but also the way in which an audience would experience a performance of the most famous of libertines in Spanish. As such, it strives to keep the essence of each stanza intact, while reflecting the rhyme and stress-pattern of the original. Although the exigencies of meter and rhyme entail making some minor concessions when it comes to rendering the content, the way in which the play was written is such a crucial aspect that, without its playful octosyllabic lines, its easy rhymes, and its carefully-studied meter, we cannot speak of Don Juan Tenorio. Intended for a wide variety of readers, the translation is preceded by an introduction in which several key aspects of the play are addressed, and the main text is complemented with footnotes clarifying key passages, or offering additional information about the characters, the time-period, or the literary history of the Don Juan character.

Don Juan Tenorio, English and Spanish Edition

Don Juan Tenorio, English and Spanish Edition
Author: José Zorrilla
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2015-04-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781511849388

Jose Zorrilla y Moral (1817-1893) was a Spanish Romantic poet and dramatist. He was born in Valladolid to a magistrate in whom Ferdinand VII placed special confidence. He was educated by the Jesuits at the Real Seminario de Nobles in Madrid, wrote verses when he was twelve, became an enthusiastic admirer of Walter Scott and Chateaubriand, and took part in the school performances of plays by Lope de Vega and Calderon de la Barca. In 1833 he was sent to study law at the University of Toledo, but after a year of idleness, he fled to Madrid, where he horrified the friends of his absolutist father by making violent speeches and by founding a newspaper which was promptly suppressed by the government. He narrowly escaped transportation to the Philippines, and passed the next few years in poverty."

Don Juan Tenorio

Don Juan Tenorio
Author: Jose Zorrilla
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2018-05-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781718897281

Don Juan Tenorio: Drama religioso-fantástico en dos partes (Don Juan Tenorio: Religious-Fantasy Drama in Two Parts), is a play written in 1844 by José Zorrilla. It is the more romantic of the two principal Spanish-language literary interpretations of the legend of Don Juan. The other is the 1630 El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra (The Trickster of Seville and the Guest of Stone), which is attributed to Tirso de Molina. Don Juan Tenorio owes a great deal to this earlier version, as recognized by Zorrilla himself in 1880 in his Recuerdos del tiempo viejo (Memories of the Old Times), although the author curiously confuses de Molina with another writer of the same era, Agustín Moreto.

Don Juan Tenorio

Don Juan Tenorio
Author: José Zorrilla
Publisher: Tredition Classics
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2012
Genre:
ISBN: 9783849155537

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.

The Real Don Juan

The Real Don Juan
Author: José Zorrilla
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2016-03-02
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1783192577

Don Juan Tenorio is an important and influential Spanish classic which gives a softened, romanticised version of the infamous hero and ends, uniquely, in his repentance and salvation. First seen in 1844, it is Zorrilla's best-known play and is still performed every year in Spain on All Souls' Day. The play, in Ranjit Bolt's stunning rhyming verse translations, was given an extensive tour by the Oxford Stage Company in late 1990.

The Lost Diary of Don Juan

The Lost Diary of Don Juan
Author: Douglas Carlton Abrams
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2007-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1416556540

It was a time of discovery and decadence, when life became a gamble and the gold that poured endlessly into the port of Sevilla devalued money, marriage, and love itself. In the midst of these treacherous times, Juan Tenorio is born and then abandoned in the barn of a convent. Raised secretly by the nuns, he learns to love and worship all women and wants nothing more than to be a priest, until he falls in love with one of the sisters. When their affair is discovered, Juan leaves the Church forever. He is soon recruited to be a spy by the powerful Marquis de la Mota, who teaches him to become the world's greatest libertine and seducer of women. But when he crosses swords with the most powerful man in the Empire, Don Juan must escape the murderous fury of the Inquisitor who battles all forms of debauchery, deviance, and heresy. It is after knowing countless women that he is convinced by the Marquis to keep a diary, and it is here within its pages that Don Juan reveals his greatest adventures and the Arts of Passion he mastered. But what finally compels him to confess everything and risk losing his life, livelihood, and honor is the most perilous adventure of all -- the irresistible fall into the madness of love with the only woman who could ever make him forget all others.

Don Juan 2.1 NYC

Don Juan 2.1 NYC
Author: Juan Martin Salamanca
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2014-06-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781312284678

Y si Don Juan Tenorio hubiera vivido en el siglo XXI? Y si lo hubiera hecho en Nueva York y no en Sevilla? 170 anos despues de que Jose Zorrilla estrenara su celebre drama, ""Don Juan 2.1 NYC"" recupera esta obra de la literatura universal para trasladar la misma trama con todos sus personajes a la Gran Manzana de nuestros dias. Una adaptacion del clasico cargada de frescura, accion, suspense y algo de fantasia. Un tenorio del siglo XXI para los lectores del siglo XXI. La mejor forma de iniciarse en el mito de Don Juan. Un magnifico libro, cuyo autor ha sabido transportarnos de un siglo a otro con total maestria.

The Last Days of Don Juan

The Last Days of Don Juan
Author: Tirso de Molina
Publisher: Oberon Books
Total Pages: 92
Release: 1990
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

Perhaps better known as 'The Trickster of Seville', this is the first great treatment of the Juan Tenorio legend. The depravity of Don Juan reaches new depths with each seduction he plans, until he receives his just reward in the horrigying final scenes.