Juan, Don (Legendary character) (Personal Name)

Don Juan(ismo), 2014: t.p. (Don Juan)

Britannica Online, Apr. 7, 2016: (Don Juan, fictitious character who is a symbol of libertinism. Originating in popular legend, he was first given literary personality in the tragic drama El burlador de Sevilla (1630), attributed to the Spanish dramatist Tirso de Molina. Through Tirso's tragedy, Don Juan became an archetypical character in the West, as familiar as Don Quixote, Hamlet, and Faust. Subsequently, he became the hero-villain of plays, novels, and poems; his legend was assured enduring popularity through Mozart's opera Don Giovanni (1787))