Don Juan Tenorio es un noble sevillano de inicios del siglo XVII. Su carácter arrogante le lleva al atropello y al agravio de honores femeninos, de amistades, de los usos sociales de la época y hasta de la propia llamada del más allá. El burlador de Sevilla, obra fundamental en el teatro barroco, nos acerca, desde un tono de comedia, a elementos complejos de la condición humana en relación con el arte de la seducción, el sentimiento amoroso y la vanidad. Esta edición contiene además una amplia guía de lectura, con un análisis del contexto de la obra y del autor, así como un análisis del teatro del barroco. Incluye también una amplia bibliografía y una variada propuesta de ejercicios.

In Don Juan and the Point of Honor, James Mandrell undertakes a systematic examination of the many questions surrounding the legendary character. What emerges is a view of Don Juan as a positive social force in patriarchal society and culture. Mandrell shows that Don Juan should not be treated as an innocent or outmoded cultural artifact.

Tirso de Molina was, with Lope de Vega and Calderón, one of the great dramatists of 17th century Spain, which produced a theatre as vital rich and as varied as its Elizabethan counterpart.

Tirso de Molina was, with Lope de Vega and Calderon, one of the great dramatists of 17th century Spain, which produced a theatre as vital rich and as varied as its Elizabethan counterpart. The Trickster of Seville is thoroughly representative of the drama of Spain's Golden Age: a drama of fast-moving action which set its face against classical precepts, broke the unities of time and place, cheerfully mixed the serious and the comic, combined main and sub-plots, and cultivated Spanish subjects and Spanish characters. In this respect Tirso's Don Juan is of course, the most famous character in the drama of the Golden Age, as well as the first of a long line which extends through Mozart and Moliere to the 20th century.