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Don Juan Tenorio, the quintessential romantic drama, is one of the few works that has had and continues to have an authentically popular life. It would be difficult to find a Spaniard who cannot recite some of its verses from memory. The drama, which repeats the old Don Juan theme, has acquired an unusual literary effectiveness in the mixture of cloak-and-dagger themes with religious and moral ones. This edition is based on the French edition that Zorrilla gave as definitive, compared with the autograph manuscript preserved in the Royal Spanish Academy.