Don Juan in Hell
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An episode from Act Three of Man and Superman, "Don Juan in Hell" is often presented independently of the rest of the play. Rooted in the Don Juan legend โ particularly as it appears in Mozart's opera Don Giovanni โ this dream sequence forms a play within a play. It consists of a dramatic reading in which three characters from Man and Superman appear in archetypal guises: Don Juan, the libertine turned moralist; Doรฑa Ana, the eternal female; and the Commander, a hypocrite transformed into a statue. The Devil himself joins their spirited debate on the nature of heaven and hell, of good and evil, and of human purpos
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" Subject: Don Juan in Hell consists of a philosophical debate between Don Juan, the Devil, Doรฑa Ana and the Statue of Don Gonzalo, Ana's father looking on. "
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