Térésa speaks soft and tender words to her child, showing how much love she has for them. However, Fabio, her lover, is knocking on the door. He asks her to join him to talk in private, but Térésa tries to resist. She soon gives in to his supplications and leaves with Fabio, abandoning her child.

Glove-puppet

Not specified

Lemercier de Neuville Louis

France

Paris

Printed

Mother

Child

Child abandonment

Lover

Dramatic

Satirical

Lemercier de Neuville, I Pupazzi. Front cover of the first edition, 1866.

French

Wife

Servant

Lover (man)

Aside

Situation comedy

Un drame à enfant

Drama with a child

Donna Anna turns Don Juan away – she prefers her more virtuous brother. Don Juan asks his father for three hundred ducats to win her over. When Don Pedro refuses and threatens to throw him behind bars, he loses his temper and murders him. Don Juan flees the town with his servant Kasperl, whom he pretends is the new sergeant, to fool the guards, and they hide in the woods. There, they meet a hermit and Don Juan wants to borrow his clothes to disguise himself. But Kasperl tells the hermit what crimes his master Don Juan has committed, and Don Juan eliminates this troublesome witness. In the meantime, the devil appears to Kasperl, who promptly gets rid of him. As they arrive to an inn, Don Pedro’s ghost appears to them and Don Juan invites him to dinner. The ghost agrees to the invitation and is poorly received by Kasperl, who go as far as throwing a chair on him. Don Juan refuses to repent. The ghost invites him back, then holds out his hand to him to seal their deal. At this moment, devils come and carry him into the air. Kasperl takes all of his master’s money and celebrates.

String marionette

Schmidt Leopold

Austria

Vienna

Father

Brother

Jealousy

Parricide

Money

Murder

Assassination

Tavern

Ghost

Phantom

Sausage

Devil

Woman

Love

Excessive drinking

Nature

Vanity

Spirits

Comical

Tragic

Lyrical

German

Das nächtliche Gericht, oder Der steinerne Gast, oder Junker Hans von Stein

Don Juan

Don Pietro

Anna

Guard

Hermit

Kasperl

Waitress

Song

Monologue

Dance

Versified passages

Apparition

Final intervention of the devil

Role reversal

Inn scene

Word for another

Apparition of the Devil

Murder on stage

Comic equivocation

Running away

Dialect as a social marker

Don Juan der Wilde

Don Juan the Wild Man