Don Juan overhears a conversation between Amarillis and Don Philippo, who agree to a romantic rendezvous. He sets out to kidnap Amarillis, when her father, Don Pietro, appears. Don Juan stabs him, and then robs his relative Don Alvaro Pantolfius, before fleeing Seville with his servant Schängche. The latter, tormented by a devil, is carried into the air on a giant sausage. After a shipwreck in which Schängche is swallowed and then spat out by a whale, the two fugitives wander through the woods. They meet a hermit, who, under threat, lends Don Juan a suit to disguise himself. Lost in the forest, Amarillis meets Schängche's fiancée, the innkeeper Greta de la Rosa. Don Juan finds the two women and tries to seduce them, but Don Philippo finds him in the meantime. Don Juan murders him. Schängche still has to fight a monster they meet in the forest. They arrive by chance at Greta's inn, where Don Juan seduces the bride of a wedding that has just taken place. At the cemetery, he invites the statue of Don Pietro to supper, who accepts his invitation. But Don Juan refuses to repent and is damned. Schängche, on the other hand, marries Greta.

Rod puppet

Not specified

Will Hermanns (Peter Josef Wilhelm Hermanns)

Germany

Aachen

Printed

Seduction

Abduction

Murder

Money

Debauchery

Perlicke

Leviathan

Monster

Sausage

Damnation

Forest

Tavern

Dramatic

German

Don Juan der Fraulütstrüester

Ein schauerlich-schönes Spiel in 5 Akten mit Sing-, Flieg- und Keilerei

Don Pietro

Donna Marillis

Don Filippo

Don Juan

Pantolfius

Hermit

Devil

Court usher

Versified passages

Song

Dialect

Lazzi

Tragic irony

Word for another

Off-stage voices

Stichomythia

Monologue

Blow-with-a-stick

Disguise

Devil's apparition

Murder on stage

Pact with the devil

Der steinerne Gast

The stone guest

The puppeteer apologises to the audience because he is not ready to perform Macbeth: instead, he will perform an unpublished comedy by Goldoni, The Jealous Emigrant (which is, in fact, a fake written on purpose by Brunello). But one of his glove puppets, Arlequin, disagrees and organises a rebellion, convincing the other puppets to perform Macbeth. The tragedy begins, but Arlequin, who has dared to step out of his role, must die like Macbeth. The same applies to his antagonist King Duncan, who - as we discover at the end - is no other than the puppeteer himself.

Glove-puppet

Bare hand

Actor and puppet

Adults

Brunello Gigio

Molnár Gyula (aka Giulio Molnár)

Italy

Mogliano Veneto

Rebellion

William Shakespeare

Self-consciousness of puppets

Rewriting

Adaptation

Fake unpublished

Tragic

Ironic

Italian

Rodolfo

Colombina

Brighella

Lady Macbeth

Arlecchino

Macbeth

Pantalon

Macduff

Balanzone

Generico

Witch

Messenger

Guardiano

Sicaire

Singe

Comical regional accent

Theatre within the theatre

Double characters

Address to the public

Rehearsal (play within a play)

Apparition of the puppeteer

Surprise effect

Captatio benevolentiae

Tragic conflict

Parody of formal language

Avista

Macbeth all'improvviso

Improvised Macbeth