Don Juan

Don Juan in Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, a painting by German painter Max Slevogt

Don Juan is a legendary, fictional libertine whose story has been told many times by many authors. El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra (The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest) by Tirso de Molina is a play set in the fourteenth century that was published in Spain around 1630. Evidence suggests it is the first written version of the Don Juan legend.

I passed my Spanish beginners' course but to no avail of understanding the play above. Hablo un poco español, pero el vídeo de arriba, no entiendo!

Tirso de Molina (October 1571 - March 12, 1648) was a Spanish Baroque dramatist, poet and a Roman Catholic monk.

Originally Gabriel Téllez, he was born in Madrid. He studied at Alcalá de Henares, joined the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy on November 4, 1600, and entered the Monastery of San Antolín at Guadalajara, Spain on January 21, 1601. He was ordained a priest by 1610.

This fucker is a priest! Yet he created a legendary rake, isn't that ironic?