Dom Juan ou le Festin de Pierre

aka [Don Juan, or The Feast of the Stone]

Don Juan

Author

Molière

Language

French

Year

1682

Country

France

Genre

Drama / Theatre / Plays

early modern europeenlightenmentcomediesfive-act playsneoclassical

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Dom Juan ou le Festin de Pierre is a five-act 1665 comedy by Molière based upon the Spanish legend of Don Juan Tenorio. The aristocrat Dom Juan is a rake who seduces, marries, and abandons Elvira, discarded as just another romantic conquest. Later, he invites to dinner the statue of a man whom he recently had murdered; the statue accepts and reciprocates Dom Juan's invitation. In the course of their second evening, the stone statue of the murdered man charms, deceives, and leads Dom Juan to Hell.