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Don Juan is a rambling, unfinished, and vast literary creation that succeeds as an epic carnival. The story of the legendary lovers travels and romantic escapades has scope, variety of human types and experience, common sense, laughter, observation, and ease. It is not especially deep or intellectual, but is a broad and brazen slice of human existence, writ large.
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Byron, George Gordon Byron,--Baron,--1788-1824.--Don Juan.
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1970
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Byron, George Gordon Byron,--Baron,--1788-1824.--Don Juan.
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Don Juan Notes
by Dougald B. MacEachen, Ph.D. Department of English John Carroll University
including Life and Background Stanza, Style, and Plan List of Characters Synopsis Summaries and Commentaries Notes on Main Characters Review Questions and Essay Topics Selected Bibliography
INCORPORATED LINCOLN, NEBRASKA 68501
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Editor Gary Carey, M.A. University of Colorado
Consulting Editor James L. Roberts, Ph.D. Department of English University of Nebraska
ISBN 0-8220-0411-9 Copyright 1970 by Cliffs Notes, Inc. All Rights Reserved Printed in U.S.A.
1996 Printing
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Contents
Introduction
5
Life of Byron
6
The Literary Background
8
The "Ottava Rima" Stanza and Style
9
Plan of the Poem
11
Style of the Poem
11
List of Characters
12
A Brief Synopsis
16
Summaries and Critical Commentaries
23
Notes on Main Characters
Don Juan
77
Donna Julia
78
Haide
78
Lambro
79
John Johnson
79
Gulbeyaz
80
Suwarrow
80
Catherine the Great
81
Lord Henry Amundeville
81
Lady Adeline Amundeville
82
Aurora Raby
83
Review Questions and Theme Topics
83
Selected Bibliography
86
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Introduction
Like Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Byron's Don Juan is an unfinished poem. How Byron might have ended it is idle speculation. It could have gone on indefinitely like a comic strip as long as the public showed an interest in its continuation. All Byron had to do was to change the locale and introduce new episodes. Byron spoke once or twice of letting Juan be killed off in the French Revolution. That would have made a suitable conclusion to a drifting, planless life just as the Greek revolution made a suitable, even immortalizing, conclusion to Byron's drifting, planless life. He could have had Empress Catherine, or her son Paul I, transfer her envoy to France, perhaps as a spy, and have him blunder into the guillotine while being pursued by some beautiful goddess of reason. Such an ending would have been consistent with the personality and character of Juan, who is swept along with the current, who does not seek out but is sought out.
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