Don Juan, Cupid, the Devil

Abstract

T he first reference ever to Don Juan as aday categorically define Tirso's Don Juan as a demonic figure is in Tirso de Molina's El burlademonic figure: Aindrico Castro affirms that he or tie Sevilla y co vidad tie piedra (c. 1630). pr sents the first case of violent Satanism in t C ns der these three passages: following Don his ory of Chri tian art (Don Juan en ba Juan's ad enture with Duches Isabela i Naples Literatura 23), and C bos Fea Deibe more and his precipitous flight from the pal ce, his recently asserts that tat com aliO de la plum uncle Don P dro exclai s, de Tirso, Don Juan es una figura di bObic (9). Howeve , he direct textual linking of Don Pienso qu el Demonio Jua /sex with the Devil/ nak s rel tively minie l tom6 fo ma huma a, mat. Hi charac rization s a nic fig re, in pues que, vuelto en humo y polvo, se arr j6 por l s ba c s... (1.300-04). f ct, must b cons dered fragmentary in the larger context of El burlador and, consequently, Late , in sponse to Don Juan's behavior at the isl ding i a at empt to arr ve at o tha bridal feast in the v llage of Dos Herm nas, a s perfic al u dersta ding of the mea ing of B rici l m n , l demon le viO (2.678); Do uan's d abolic e. Suc char ct riz st ll e , wh o ua u titutes or t e tion o ly perpetu s the c itic tre set into groom at the wedding table, CatalinOn expresses motion by the nationalistic search for Don pi y for Ba ric i sayi g, De dich do tim, qu Ju n's or gin i medi val Eu op a folk o e,