It seems unlikely that the ur−Don Juan play, El burlador de Sevilla by Tirso de Molina (Gabriel Tellez, 1580?−1648), should remain largely unexplored by scholars of English literature. Macdonald's essay is perhaps a first step towards a long overdo critical evaluation of the importance of Tirso on the Don Juan figure in the English tradition. Little known even to many of those who teach him in his nineteenth and twentieth century English incarnations is the Spanish genesis of the most famous figure to emerge from that tradition-Don Juan. Surprisingly little interest is roused by any Spanish writer other than Cervantes and García Lorca (who too would probably be unknown but for his violent death and its political implications) and, strangely enough, scholars of the Elizabethan stage take little notice of Spain's coeval Golden Age drama, even though this theatrical efflorescence produced thousands of plays and exerted a pervasive and profound effect on the revered French classical theatre. After many years as a hispanist teaching in an English department I have come to the somewhat disturbing conclusion that the literature of Spain is too often disregarded by students of other European languages or literatures.
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