As a result consideration of any modern model almost inevitably turns into a comparison with either or both of the key Spanish precursor texts, namely, Tirso de Molina's El burlador de Sevilla (1630) and José de Zorrilla's Don Juan Tenorio (1844). The figure of Don Juan is an integral part of Spanish patrimony that, together with the propagation of representations in other countries over the years, has become a literary myth of Western civilization.
