Tirso de Molina

Gabriel Téllez (c. 24 March 1583 – c. 20 February 1648), also known as Tirso de Molina, was a Spanish Baroque dramatist, poet, and Roman Catholic monk. He is primarily known for writing The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest, the play from which the character Don Juan originates.

Quotes

• Con el honor le vencí,
  porque siempre los villanos
  tienen su honor en las manos,
  y siempre miran por sí;
  que por tantas variedades,
  es bien que se entienda y crea,
  que el honor se fue al aldea
  huyendo de las ciudades.
  •                                                Through his honour
    I conquered him, and always, with these peasants
    They hold their honour in both hands, and look
    To their own honour first. For honour
    Was forced, by so much falsity and fraud,
    To leave the city for the countryside.
  • El Burlador de Sevilla (1630), act 3 (Tr. Roy Campbell)

External links

• The Trickster of Seville and His Guest of Stone, tr. Roy Campbell, in Eric Bentley (ed.) Life is a Dream, and Other Spanish Classics (1985), p. 139