The Masks of Don Juan
Katarzyna Wojtysiak-Wawrzyniak
kasiawojtysiak@poczta.onet.pl(Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5730-0395
Abstract
This article considers selected literary, ideological, and social contexts of the origins of Molière’s Don Juan (1665) in order to demonstrate links between particular cultural phenomena of the mid-seventeenth century and the construction of the play’s protagonist and some thematic motifs. The author reviews various hypotheses concerning the literary and cultural roots of Molière’s version of the story of Don Juan, to focus on the evocation of Spanish cultural contexts. She also emphasizes that the author managed to incorporate into the story of the legendary seducer ample commentary pertaining to factual reality. Ideas rooted in aesthetic explorations and current ideological discussions and disputes contributed to the creation of a protagonist whose experience also corresponds in many aspects to that of the present-day reader and theatergoer.
Keywords:
Molière, French drama, «Dom Juan ou le Festin de Pierre», Lope de Vega, honorReferences
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Katarzyna Wojtysiak-Wawrzyniakkasiawojtysiak@poczta.onet.pl
Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5730-0395
Katarzyna Wojtysiak-Wawrzyniak - PhD, graduate of Roman Philology and Cultural Studies at the University of Lodz and one-year postgraduate cultural studies at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Member of the Polish Theater Company. Main interests: 18th-20th century French theater and drama, Golden Age theater, 20th and 21st century Spanish and Spanish-language theater and drama, especially Federico Garcia Lorca's theater, Ernesto Caballero's theater, Gilbert Durand's anthropological imaginative structures, history of ideas, myth reception, aesthetics.
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