SOURCE: Ruano de la Haza, Jose M. “Doña Ana's Seduction in El burlador de Sevilla: Further Evidence Against.” Bulletin of the Comediantes 32, No. 2 (Fall 1980): 131-33.

In the following essay, Ruano de la Haza argues that Don Juan's actions in El burlador de Sevilla suggest that Doña Ana was not seduced by the infamous deceiver.

Was Doña Ana physically seduced by Don Juan? In attempting to answer this question, two articles, published in the pages of this journal, have arrived at diametrically opposite conclusions.¹ This was probably inevitable, for Tirso has left us with little positive evidence on which to found our assumptions. On the one hand, we have line 1563 (Act II) in which Doña Ana explicitly calls Don Juan “homicida de mi honor”.² These words do not, however, necessarily imply that Don Juan was successful in physically seducing her, since Doña Ana may...