Don Juan
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Don Juan, also known as Don Giovanni, is a legendary fictional Spanish libertine who devotes his life to seducing women. The original version of the story of Don Juan appears in the 1630 play El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra (The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest) by Tirso de Molina.
In Conan Doyle fictions
The Heiress of Glenmahowley (1884)
- John Vereker (the narrator) imagined that his daring intrusion into the Clairmont estate would make people in London talk about him as a "Don Juan" (HEIR 165).
[SH] The Musgrave Ritual (1893)
- Brunton, the butler at Hurlstone, was compared to Don Juan by Reginald Musgrave (MUSG 77).
