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The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest: read in Spanish (B2)
Read Tirso de Molina’s verse play The Trickster of Seville in Spanish. Level B2: the first Don Juan drama, in three jornadas, with instant word translation.
El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra (Tirso de Molina)
Verse dialogue, 17th-century Spanish forms (vos, agora, aquesto), vocabulary of honor, deceit and love, the Don Juan legend
This article contains the full text of The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest (1630), the verse play traditionally attributed to Tirso de Molina, in which the seducer Don Juan Tenorio deceives women from Naples to Seville until he invites a stone statue to supper. Level B2 suits readers who can handle verse and the Spanish of the 17th century. You will learn the vocabulary of honor, deceit and punishment, and how to read dialogue in verse.
