![]() Mota comes back again, apparently not having found Ana at home, and Don Juan says he received instructions from Ana that Mota should come to the house at midnight.ĭon Juan leaves the house just in time to find Mota and give him his cape back and flees. In the letter, Ana asks Mota to visit her during the night, at 11 oclock sharp, since it will be their one and only chance to ever be together. Mota says he is going to visit Ana, and Don Juan sends Catalinn to follow him in secret.ĭon Juans plans are also helped along when a servant of Anas, having just seen Don Juan talking to Mota, asks that he give to Mota a letter from Ana. The Marquis confesses, however, that he is actually in love with his cousin Doa Ana, but laments that she is arranged to marry someone else. The King grants it, and allows him to stay as a guest in the palace. ![]() Just then, Octavio arrives, begging the kings forgiveness for having fled earlier. The King declares Don Juan banished from Seville and retracts his plans to have him marry Doa Ana. She is also overcome with shame at the undoing of her honor and flings herself into the ocean. Tisbea is so overcome with grief and anger over what happened that she exclaims fuego, fuego meaning that she is burning up with hate and a desire for revenge. Tisbea catches up with the two men, and Don Juan assures her that he intends to marry her. Gonzalo likes the idea and goes to discuss it with his daughter.Ĭatalinn scolds him, but Don Juan reminds him that this is not his first seduction, and jokes that he has a medical condition in which he must seduce. She tries to revive Don Juan, who wakes and immediately declares his love for her. Octavio, of course, had done no such thing, and starts to believe that Isabela has been unfaithful to him. The King orders Octavio and Isabela to be married at once, with both of them to be held in prison until the wedding. Pedro then claims to the King that the unknown man was Duke Octavio. ![]() However, when Isabela wants to light a lamp, she realizes that he is not her lover, the Duke Octavio, and screams for help.īut Don Juan cleverly reveals his identity as his nephew and Don Pedro assists him in making his escape just in time. Set in the 14th century, the play is the earliest fully developed dramatisation of the Don Juan legend. The play was first published in Spain around 1630, though it may have been performed as early as 1616. Its title varies according to the English translation, and it has also been published under the titles The Seducer of Seville and the Stone Guest and The Playboy of Seville and the Stone Guest. ![]() The groom, Batricio, is perturbed by the presence of a nobleman at his wedding but is powerless to do anything. ![]()
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