![]() ![]() Alfonso finds them in bed together, so she goes to a nunnery, and Juan (Canto II) gets shipped off east from Cadiz. (Canto I) Juan grows up in Seville gets seduced at sixteen by his mother's compadre Doña Julia, wife to Don Alfonso. That's how it stole up me - at least the first four cantos. Not only did I hear it out, all twelve discs - I turned around and went back and started listening all over again. ![]() I suspect that you might have the same reaction. ![]() Believe me when I tell I couldn't get enough of it. Over this last week I listened to all seventeen cantos here in this version from Naxos, narrated by Jonathan Keeble. I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan*** -Īnd we get this terrific sad beautiful funny joshing waggish story of a young man from Seville who cannot turn around without ladies throwing themselves at him. Of such as those I should not care to vaunt, The age discovers he is not the true one Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, When every year and month sends forth a new one, He was a man who could write like a dream and tell a story so good you don't want it to end.īyron tells us he is going to use that reprobate as his model in this new version, which spins out here in seventeen cantos. This Lord Byron! A scandal to his class, the upper class of early nineteenth century England.īorn with a clubfoot, he grew up handsome, had money and wit and a way with the words, and the ladies (and the young men) - and then he ran off to help the Greeks in their fight for independence. ![]()
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