Burlador de Sevilla III

Burlador de Sevilla

Jornada Tres

               
               Batricio becomes upset by Don Juan’s attitude at the dinner where he monopolized Aminta and expresses his frustration and anger. When Don Juan enters to talk to him, Don Juan easily convinces Batricio that Aminta and Don Juan are already lovers. He leaves and Don Juan remarks that he tricked him by appealing to Batricio’s honor. He goes to speak to Aminta’s father, Gaseno. Aminta tells Belisa of her worries about Batricio who has been jealous and melancholy all day. She wonders about Don Juan's identity and what he wants. In the next scene, Don Juan enters with Catalinón and Gaseno, who has promised his daughter to Don Juan. After he leaves, Catalinón warns Don Juan that Isabela waits to marry him. Don Juan says they will leave after he seduces Aminta. Catalinón tells him that God will take his vengeance on him someday but

                    Don Juan refuses to listen and says he is young and does not need to worry about behaving yet. Catalinón leaves and Aminta, dressed for bed, comes in. Surprised to see Don Juan instead of Batricio, she tells him to leave but the trickster convinces her that Batricio has forgotten her. Don Juan seduces her. Isabela and her servant Fabio are travel toward Seville for her wedding. They encounter Tisbea, who tells them of her encounter with Don Juan. Isabela invites her to travel with them. Meanwhile in Seville, Don Juan and Catalinón talk in a cemetery where they find the tomb of Don Gonzalo de Ulloa. The inscription on the tomb speaks of vengeance. Don Juan jokingly invites the statue to dine with him that night. They return to his house for dinner and the stone statue of Don Gonzalo comes to dinner as invited. Don Juan feels frightened at first but bluffs his way through dinner.

                      A very nervous Catalinón makes jokes all through the meal. The statue invites them to dine with him the next day at his tomb. In the castle, Don Diego and the king of Castilla try to arrange marriages for Don Juan with Doña Isabela, Mota with Doña Ana, and Octavio with a woman of his court. Duke Octavio arrives and asks for permission to fight with Don Juan but the king refuses. The king and Don Diego leave and Gaseno and Aminta arrive. They tell Octavio that Don Juan promised to marry Aminta but seduced her and left. Octavio leaves with them, hoping to use Aminta to ruin Don Juan´s wedding. Don Juan and Catalinón return to the churchyard. They eat with the stone statue who serves them serpents and scorpions.

                    Afterward the statue takes Don Juan by the hand and drags him down to Hell. At the palace, the king and Don Diego encounter Batricio and Gaseno, Tisbea and Isabela, Aminta and Octavio, and Mota. They all complain of Don Juan. Catalinón comes in and recounts the death of Don Juan. The king declares this justice from heaven and marries off Octavio with Isabela, Mota with Doña Ana, and Batricio with Aminta. Only Tisbea remains unmarried.

Burlador de Sevilla II

Burlador de Sevilla

Jornada Dos

                  Meanwhile in Castilla, Don Diego (Juan’s father) tells the King of Castilla about Juan’s treachery against Isabel. They decide that Isabel and Juan should get married and abandon their plan of Juan marrying Ana. When Octavio arrives, they tell him that he can marry Ana (Don Gonzalo’s daughter). On their way to Castilla, Juan and Catalinón run into the Marqués de la Mota (another person who seduces women). They talked about the women that Mota has seduced and Mota begins talking about a cousin that he is in love with named Ana (Don Gonzalo’s daughter).

                   After saying goodbye, Juan and Catalinón run into Ana’s servant. She gives them a letter that Ana had written to Mota which says that Ana is sad that she is betrothed to another man and wants to express her love for Mota explaining that it would be their only chance. She invites Mota to come to her room at 11:00pm wearing a certain cloak. Juan reads the letter and later tells Mota to arrive at Ana’s room at 12:00am and asks to borrow Mota’s cloak. Juan shows up at Ana’s room at 11:00pm. Later, when Ana realized that Juan is not Mota, she screams saying she has lost her honor. Her father, Gonzalo, runs to her defense and fights Juan. Juan kills Gonzalo. As Gonzalo is dying he swears to haunt Juan. Juan escapes and gives Mota his cloak back right before midnight. Mota is arrested for wearing the suspect’s clothes.

                   The next day, Juan and Catalinón run into a group of people who are about to celebrate a wedding. Juan instantly falls in love with the bride, Aminta, and plans to make her his next victim. The groom, Batricio, is uneasy having Juan at the wedding party.

Burlador de Sevilla I

  Burlador de Sevilla

Jornada Uno

              The play begins in media res (the action has already started.) We hear Don Juan and Doña Isabela talking in the royal palace in Naples, Italy. Don Juan seduces Doña Isabela by pretending to be her fiancé, Duke Octavio. She calls the royal guard when she realizes his trick. Don Juan's uncle Pedro helps him escape out a balcony. Don Pedro lies to the king of Naples, saying that Doña Isabela told him that her seducer was duke Octavio. The king orders Isabela to be locked in a tower and sends his guards for Octavio.

               While Duke Octavio and his servant Ripio talk about Isabela, don Pedro Tenorio and the royal guards interrupt them. Octavio asks why they have come, and Don Pedro tells him the story of Isabela and claims she identified Octavio as the man involved. Hurt by her betrayal, Octavio vows to leave for Spain.The action shifts now to a fishing village where Tisbea, a fisherwoman, helps rescue Don Juan and his servant, Catalinón, from a shipwreck. Even though she has never felt any passion for the men of her village, she falls in love with don Juan. At the palace in Castilla, King Alfonso XI speaks with Don Gonzalo de Ulloa, who describes his visit to Lisbon. 

               The king arranges a marriage between Don Juan and Doña Ana de Ulloa, the daughter of Don Gonzalo. Back at the fishing village, Don Juan and Catalinón argue about Don Juan´s actions. Catalinón tries to persuade him to change his ways, but Don Juan says he is young and still has a long time before he needs to repent. Don Juan seduces Tisbea. After he leaves, she rages about her fate.