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Don Juan Modern
1844-2007
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| bets and wagers, first example of the eternal feminine successfully saving Don Juan, servant role present but very small because less people had servants | Zorrilla Don Juan Tenorio |
| Ana de Pentoja, Dona Ines | Zorrilla Don Juan Tenorio |
| In Zorrilla's Don Juan Tenorio, Don Juan and Don Luis meet to compare conquests over a year's bet. Don Juan (wins/loses) the bet, and a wager is made for the conquest of what two women? | The fiancee of a friend, a novice nun |
| In Zorrilla's Don Juan Tenorio, ___ de Pentoja is Don Luis' _______, Dona ____ is the novice nun. | Ana, fiancee, Ines |
| In Zorrilla's Don Juan Tenorio, the servant Ciutti has a (larger/smaller) role than traditional servants because ________ | smaller, less people had servants |
| In Zorrilla's Don Juan Tenorio, Ana's father is the _________ | statue |
| In Zorrilla's Don Juan Tenorio, Don Juan is about to marry Dona ____, but when her father hears about Juan and Luis' bet, he revokes his blessing. What does Don Juan do? | Ines, kills him |
| In Zorrilla's Don Juan Tenorio, how does Don Juan get into the convent to kidnap Ines? | He bribes the nuns and Ines' servant |
| In Zorrilla's Don Juan Tenorio, Don Juan's father donates his estate as a ___________ | cemetery for Don Juan's victims |
| In Zorrilla's Don Juan Tenorio, _________ saves Don Juan from _______, which wants to take him to hell | the ghost of Dona Ines, the statue |
| In Zorrilla's Don Juan Tenorio, what are the two main wagers made? | Between Don Luis and Don Juan to get the most conquests, between God and Dona Ines for Don Juan's salvation |
| Don Giovanni was misunderstood, the Don Juan legend is the product of years of rumors, Don Giovanni explains himself to a vain woman on a train, female role challenges | Shaw Don Giovanni Explains |
| In Shaw's Don Giovanni Explains, the open is a monologue about female roles in society. The woman is riding home on a train and sees ____________ | the ghost of Don Giovanni |
| In Shaw's Don Giovanni Explains, the ghost of Don Giovanni explains to the woman on the train that his legend is (true/false) and is a product of his ex-wife, _________ telling rumors | false, Elvira |
| True or False: In Shaw's Don Giovanni Explains, Don Giovanni presents himself as of high intelligence and moral values | True |
| In Shaw's Don Giovanni Explains, how does Don Giovanni say he died? | He fell through a floor after the statue stepped on a weak plank |
| In Shaw's Don Giovanni Explains, why did Don Giovanni marry Elvira? | He needed to get married, and thought Elvira would be a good choice because she had no interest in him |
| True or False: In Shaw's Don Giovanni Explains, Don Giovanni explains that the statue came to life and invited him to dinner | True |
| In Shaw's Don Giovanni Explains, why did Don Giovanni go to hell, according to Don Giovanni? | The commander had misled the devil on Don Juan's character based on rumors of the time, and Don Giovanni was actually supposed to be in heaven |
| In Shaw's Don Giovanni Explains, how is heaven portrayed by the devil? | thought-based conversation, dry |
| A play about the night following Don Juan's plunge into hell, Don Juan's character is broken so that his soul can be taken | Rostand The Last Night of Don Juan |
| In Rostand's The Last Night of Don Juan, Don Juan makes a deal with the devil for five more years of evil. At the end of it, the devil can only take his soul if _______ | he can break his pride |
| In Rostand's The Last Night of Don Juan, Don Juan believes he has truly conquered his women because he truly knows them. What and how does the devil prove? | Don Juan did not know the women because he can't recognize any of their souls |
| In Rostand's The Last Night of Don Juan, when Don Juan realizes he did not know the women, he decides to conquer you just have to rule. What and how did the devil prove? | Don Juan did not rule any of the women, the devil made them lustful and they tricked him into having sex with them |
| In Rostand's The Last Night of Don Juan, what is Don Juan's eternal punishment? | He has to act out his damnation as a puppet |
| True or False: In Rostand's The Last Night of Don Juan, the play starts with a puppet show and ends with Don Juan as a puppet. Don Juan shows that he is aware of himself as a literary character through the play. | True |
| female centered, Don Juan relationships, young female manipulates Don Juan, ends with Don Juan being taken away for hanging | Lilar The Burlador |
| In Lilar's The Burlador, Duchess ________ is Don Juan's main relationship, but she does not let him marry her because _____ | Isabel, she knows that once she is married, she is no longer interesting to Don Juan |
| In Lilar's The Burlador, Dona ___ is the arranged fiancee of Don Juan | Anna |
| In Lilar's The Burlador, Don Juan spends the night with Duchess ______ pretending to be Duke Octavio, her fiancee. When she discovers the mistake, she chooses to leave everything behind for him. While in Italy, Don Juan is promised by the King to | Isabel |
| In Lilar's The Burlador, Ana comes to Isabel to blackmail her for Don Juan, saying "I don't love him, I only want him." When the blackmail does not work, what does Ana do? | She tells the king and Don Juan is taken for execution back in the castle where he originally seduced Isabel |
| True or False: In Lilar's The Burlador, the statue is Ana's father | False: there is no statue |
| Don Juan returns home and spends the play trying to get back to his fiancee who he left at the altar | von Horvath Don Juan Comes Back from the War |
| In von Horvath's Don Juan Comes Back..., Don Juan is allowed to stay in the home of a widow and her daughter. After the widow learns of Don Juan's past, what does she do? | Accuses Don Juan of raping her daughter, kicks him out |
| In von Horvath's Don Juan Comes Back..., why does Don Juan want to go to the woman he left at the altar? | War made him realize he loved her |
| In von Horvath's Don Juan Comes Back..., when he gets to his fiancee's house, he learns _________ | she died of insanity |
| In von Horvath's Don Juan Comes Back..., how does Don Juan die? How does this relate to other Don Juans? | He freezes to death at her gravestone. There is still a stone figure that kills him, but there is no supernatural element, and the stone belongs to a woman instead of a father/husband. |
| In von Horvath's Don Juan Comes Back..., how do we get hints that Don Juan was a stereotypical Don Juan before the war? | Every woman he meets says she recognizes him |
| In von Horvath's Don Juan Comes Back..., how is Rostand's scene where Don Juan has to recognize his conquests echoed? | Don Juan tells every woman that she has a trait that reminds him of someone |
| What are the names of the women in von Horvath's Don Juan Comes Back...? | No main female characters have names |
| In von Horvath's ________ and Frisch's _______, Don Juan leaves a woman at the altar, then the woman dies of heart break or suicide | Don Juan comes back from the war, The Love of Geometry |
| Dona Anna, Dona Elvira, Miranda | Women of Frisch's Don Juan Comes Back from the War |
| Religious commentary, increased female roles, sex worker, celestina cameo | Frisch The Love of Geometry |
| In Frisch's The Love of Geometry, Don Juan and Anna both leave the night before the wedding and _________. When this is discovered at the wedding, how do they react? | Have sex with each other as strangers and promise to meet the next day and run away together, Dona Anna is happy because she loves him, Don Juan is upset because he only loved her when he didn't have an obligation to her |
| How are Dona Ana from Zorrilla's Don Juan Tenorio and Dona Inez from Frisch's the Love of Geometry similar? | They both sleep with Don Juan while betrothed to his best friend |
| In Frisch's The Love of Geometry, why does Don Juan get engaged to Dona Anna? | Dona Anna is his prize for winning the war using geometry |
| In Frisch's The Love of Geometry, ________ is a sex worker. Why did she fall in love with Don Juan? | Miranda, Don Juan paid for her time and played chess with her |
| In Frisch's The Love of Geometry, Don Juan fakes his damnation and ends up living in the castle of _________ | Miranda's late husband (with Miranda) |
| In Frisch's The Love of Geometry, Miranda dresses as Dona ____ to get Don Juan to pay attention to her. When she is speaking with him, what happens? | Ana, the priest shows Don Juan Ana's drowned body |
| What is the historical significance of Frisch's The Love of Geometry? | It is the true story behind Tirso's Don Juan |
| True or False: Frisch's The Love of Geometry is an example of a modern play with religious commentary | True: Ana's mother, Elvira, having affair with bishop, women act holy around bishop but secretly want to be seduced by Don Juan |
| Don Juan has always existed, reincarnates every few centuries, growing old | Radzinsky Don Juan Continued |
| In Radzinsky's Don Juan Continued, how is Leporello's list used? | Leporello manages a photo shop; the women that are reincarnated alongside Leporello and Don Juan all have portraits with names and phone numbers in the shop |
| In Radzinsky's Don Juan Continued, why does Leporello become Don Juan? | Don Juan is tired and unable to carry out his seduction of Anna |
| In Radzinsky's Don Juan Continued, does a statue figure occur? | No, but Anna's husband does try to kill Don Juan, but dies of a heart attack |
| Don Juan stops seducing because he will never be able to love the Chevalier back, woman calls a meeting with Don Juan and other women to get him to marry her niece | Schmitt Don Juan on Trial |
| In Schmitt's Don Juan on Trial, Don Juan almost agrees to marry Angelique and seduced Duchess de Vaubricourt because _____ | they looked like the Chevalier |
| In Schmitt's Don Juan on Trial, Duchess de Vaubricourt calls a meeting because ___________, so she needs to marry her niece to Don Juan. | her peacock is dying |
| many women of high social standing or close to the court, Angelique, Duchess de Vaubricourt | Women of Schmitt Don Juan on Trial |
| In Schmitt's Don Juan on Trial, how does Duchess know which women were seduced by Don Juan? | Sganarelle showed her the list |
| In Schmitt's Don Juan on Trial, why does Don Juan end his seductions? | He realized that he can never love someone like Chevalier loved him |
| In Schmitt's Don Juan on Trial, how does the play end? | Don Juan leaves and walks into the distance, promising to start fresh |
| Don Juan is a virgin who summons the devil to get eternal time to figure out the meaning of life, Elvira and Don Juan and Leporello stuck in eternal contract | Ives Don Juan in Chicago |
| In Ives' Don Juan in Chicago, what is the deal between Don Juan and the devil? | Don Juan gets eternal life as long as he sleeps with a different woman every night |
| In Ives' Don Juan in Chicago, why does Don Juan want eternal life? What is the problem with his deal? | He wants to find the meaning of life, but the meaning of life is love and you can't find love when sleeping with a new woman every night |
| In Ives' Don Juan in Chicago, Elvira is Don Juan's first seduction. What deal does she make with the devil? | She gets eternal life until she can get Don Juan to sleep with her |
| In Ives' Don Juan in Chicago, why does Elvira want eternal life? | She wants to sleep with Don Juan again |
| In Ives' Don Juan in Chicago, what is Leporello's outcome? | He gets to live a mortal life with Sandy |
| In Ives' Don Juan in Chicago, who are Zoey and Mike | Zoey is Don Juan's daughter with Sandy, Mike is Zoey's boyfriend |
| In Ives' Don Juan in Chicago, how does the play end? | Don Juan gives up his eternal life to get to speak with Zoey and spend a night with Elvira. This teaches the devil about love and the three get to go to heaven |
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