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"The Libertine" is a play about Don Juan. Who wrote it?

Thomas Shadwell. The date of the play was 1676. Shadwell later figured in John Dryden's "MacFlecnoe."

This writer's "Don Juan, ou le festin de pierre" is the basis for a ballet of the same title. Who is the author?

Moliere. The opera was written by Gluck (1714-87) with scenario by Ranieri Calzabigi. Moliere's title means, "Don Juan, or the stone feast."

Alexandr Pushkin wrote this 1839 play, which inspired the opera of the same title. What is it?

The Stone Guest. The opera was first performed in 1872 by Alexandr Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky, completed after his death by Cui and Rimsky-Korsakov.

This Spanish play, "Don Juan Tenorio" (1844) is traditionally performed every year on:

Halloween. The author, Jose Zorrilla y Moral, has Don Juan repenting of his evil lifestyle.

"Don Juan" is a posthumously published poem by Nikolaus Lenau (1802-50). What country was Lenau from?

Austria. It was the basis for Richard Strauss's symphonic poem, "Opus 20" (1889).

Robert Browning wrote a poem about Don Juan; the last three words of the title are "at the Fair." Who was at the fair?

Fifine. In the 1872 poem, Don Juan is the speaker. It's a pretty long poem.

All of the following are works featuring Don Juan (or a Don Juan like character). Which one is not an opera?

A Morte de D. Joao. The 1874 work is a realistic, anti-romantist portrait of the character by Portuguese poet Abilio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro. It is a poem, by the way.

"Don Juan in Hell" is a dreamlike third act of this play.

Man and Superman. It is from Shaw's 1905 play and is sometimes performed as a separate piece.

"Don Juan in America" is by novelist Eric Linklater (1899-1974). Where was Linklater from?

Scotland. The humorous work was published in 1939, with the typical "innocents abroad" theme.

In "Don Juan de Marco" Johnny Depp plays a psychiatric patient who believed himself to be the great Don Juan. Who played the pyschiatrist?

Marlon Brando & Brando. The film came out in 1995, and the setting was California.