Volume 129 (2017), Issue 2

Castilian Golden Age poetics flourishes in the first half of the 17th century. In contrast, the 16th century, the heyday of Renaissance poetics in Italy and France, is largely devoid of Castilian sources significant for the history of poetic theory....

The article examines – based on Tirso de Molinas archetype Don Juan in El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra (around 1620) – how Don Juan is transformed and gets closer to the aesthetical composition of the figure of the dandy at the end...