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Don Juan
Don Juan
(
Spanish
),
Don Giovanni
(
Italian
) is a legendary, fictional
libertine
. The first written version of the
Don Juan
legend was written by the Spanish dramatist
Tirso de Molina
(
nom de plume
of
Gabriel Téllez
). His play,
El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra
(
The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest
), was set in the fourteenth century and published in
Spain
around 1630. The name "Don Juan" is a common metaphor for a "
womanizer
".
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