The play was one of the source materials used by lorenzo da ponte and wolfgang amadeus mozart when they wrote the opera, don. Readers during byrons time would have been familiar with the character don juan from earlier works like molieres 1665 play dom juan. However, if the behaviour of dom juan is licentious and if he extols immediate pleasure, the freethinker prevails. In these two plays, we notice that the two main characters, arnolphe and dom juan, are guided in their actions by their overarching selflove. Traditionally don juan is depicted as an arrogant and. All orders shipped with tracking and delivery confirmation numbers. A seducer of women of whom he soon tires, a neglecter of debts, and a dishonorer of friends, don juan is called on to repent.
Dom juan na plus quun moment i introduction situation generale. Moliere, dom juan, est liee a lusage en cours, a son epoque. Don juan by moliere is a comedic play about the fictitious don juan, a notoriously atheistic and adulterous individual. Molieres dom juan chicago journals university of chicago. Free online 2011 american translation of le medecin malgre lui. Byron messes with our gender expectations by making juan young and making him the passive object of womens sexual advances. Eh, mon dieu, je sais mon dom juan, sur le bout du doigt, et connais votre c. Moliere s verses plays publication, statistics, words research in french the comedie francaise registers a database of over 34,000 performances from 1680 to 1791. Jan 25, 2001 don juan, the seducer of seville, originated as a herovillain of spanish folk legend, is a famous lover and scoundrel who has made more than a thousand sexual conquests. One of molieres bestknown plays, don juan was written while tartuffe was still banned on the stages of paris, and shared much with the outlawed play. Dissertations gratuites sur dissertation sur dom juan.
The theme of selflove is omnipresent in the theatrical works of moliere. Des lors nous nous demanderons en quoi dom juanpeutelle etre consideree comme une. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Feb 01, 2004 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg.
The title of molieres play is also commonly expressed as don juan, a spelling that began in. Anannotatedbibliographyof versions,analogues,usesandadaptations. Apr 20, 2015 le pistonne 1970 n23 guy bedos, jeanpierre marielle, claude pieplu, georges geret, coluche duration. I know my don juan like the back of my hand, and that you have the heart of a predator, pouncing from meal to meal, never lingering for long. Too well i know you are the scourge of womankind p. Dom juan moliere compagnie colette roumanoff theatre. In earlier versions, don juan is a middleaged man who runs around seducing women. Don juan spanish pronounced, also known as don giovanni, is a legendary, fictional libertine. Don juan, son of don louis sganarelle, valet of don juan donna elvira, wife of don juan gusman, horseman to elvira. Wycherleys the country wife and the don juan character.
More specifically, this theme is apparent in the school for wives and dom juan. Molieres play takes place over the course of don juans final two days. Lamourpropre dans lecole des femmes et dans le dom juan. It was first performed on february 15, 1660, in the theatre of the palaisroyal, paris. One way of looking at molieres great comedies is to see them as representations of a conflict between the normal world and a major character with one. Cette piece relate du quotidien dun homme libertin invetere et blasphemateur. What is really represented is a contrast between absolute freedom and absolute servitude. Son maitre a pris une dimension surnaturelle et metaphysique qui le depasse.
Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Molieres dom juan interacting with arts in medicine. Presentation, notes, questions et aprestexte etablis par. This sense of the diabolic is seen again in the second great seventeenthcentury expression of the don juan myth.
Nous sommes dans lacte v, le dernier acte, celui du chatiment. It ends with him going to hell when he refuses to repent his sins. The play is about the legendary libertine, don juan. In his dom juan, moliere depicts a libertine of ideas and manners. Le texte theatral et sa representation du xviie siecle a nos jours.
Molieres targets were doctors, lawyers and clergymenhe also lambasted in his most famous plays the misers and hypocrites of his day, among others. The play dom juan or the feast of stone written by moliere and published in 1665, is the third french adaptation of the myth of don juan, following dorimons version of 1659 and that of villiers in 1660. Don juan don juan hwahn, a philanderer and scoundrel. Dom juan simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The title of molieres play is also commonly expressed as don juan, a spelling that began in the seventeenth century.
Dom juan french paperback january 11, 1994 by moliere author visit amazons moliere page. This book invites the reader to consider the history of molieres muchcensored and oftbowdlerized play don juan, and to imagine, through this version of its text, its original fire. Don juan is a famous legendary character who has featured in many literary and musical works. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. Rhetorical inflation, mobility, and the atrophy of ethics in dom juan larry w. Molieres wildly controversial script enjoyed exactly one performance before the censors and lobbyists started pulling it apart.
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