SOURCE: Hathaway, Robert L. “The Proto-Tenorios in Tirso's Santa Juana, II-III.” In Tirso's Don Juan: The Metamorphosis of a Theme, edited by Josep M. Sola-Solé and George E. Gingras, pp. 45-55. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1988.

In the following essay, Hathaway finds in the final two plays of Tirso's Santa Juana trilogy early versions of the Don Juan character that would become fully developed in the playwright's most famous work, El burlador de Sevilla.

In her edition of Tirso's Obras dramáticas completas, Doña Blanca de los Rios included within her introduction to the three Santa Juana plays a monograph on the genesis of Don Juan. The placement was well chosen: in the second and third of the plays we encounter what she called bocetos of Don Juan, sketches which illustrate “la generación del gran mito en la dramaturgia de su hacedor...