SOURCE: Singer, Armand E. “Don Juan's Women in El burlador de Sevilla.” Bulletin of the Comediantes 33, No. 1 (Spring 1981): 67-71.

In the following essay, Singer questions the conclusion drawn by Ruth Lundelius and others that El burlador de Sevilla clearly shows Tirso's misogyny, arguing instead that the play should be seen as an expression of men's desire to conquer women.

Psychological analysis, Freudian or otherwise, is a mark of our introspective age.¹ Recent years have seen several attempts to probe into the character of Tirso's burlador (notably two articles by Gerald Wade²) and to penetrate the nature of the women he seduces, the best of which I consider Ruth Lundelius' account in the Comediantes' Bulletin itself.³ What I intend postulating here uses her arguments as a point of departure. The interested reader is referred to her article on the basic question of whether or not Tirso actually championed women...