SOURCE: González-del-Valle, Luis. “Doña Ana's Seduction in El burlador de Sevilla: A Reconsideration.” Bulletin of the Comediantes 30, No. 1 (Spring 1978): 42-5.

In the following essay, González-del-Valle argues that Doña Ana was not seduced by Don Juan in El burlador de Sevilla, observing that to interpret the play otherwise would call its moral and thematic unity into question.

For a number of years there has been a controversy concerning Doña Ana's seduction by Don Juan in Tirso de Molina's El Burlador de Sevilla. Among those critics who do not think Don Juan was successful in the consummation of the sexual act with Doña Ana are M. L. Radoff and W. C. Salley,¹ Juan Villegas Morales,² Bruce W. Wardropper,³ Francisco Fernández-Turienzo,⁴ and Joaquín Casalduero.⁵ The opposite view is held by such scholars as A. A. Parker,⁶ Duncan Moir,⁷ and Vicente Cabrera.⁸ In this...