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Haunting Don Juan through the centuries

Haunting Don Juan through the centuries

In a newly published paper, 黑料社区网鈥檚 Emmy Herland explores how the very old story of Don Juan remains relevant through its ghosts


Time and the popular imagination have been kind to Don Juan鈥攑erhaps too kind.

As written in 鈥淓l burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra鈥 by Andr茅s de Claramonte (previously attributed to Tirso de Molina) around 1635, Don Juan is a liar and unrepentant manipulator who falsely promises women marriage to coerce them into sex. He fights and kills the father of one of his victims and the father, Don Gonzalo, eventually returns to haunt Don Juan and drag him t