Episode 316: "Don Juan" by Moliere, Acts 2-5
The Literary Life Podcast
Angelina Stanford
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
On The Literary Life podcast this week, Angelina and Thomas are back with this second episode on the play Don Juan by Moliere. After sharing their commonplace quotes for this week, Thomas kicks off the discussion of the play with a definition of the farce and how it applies to this play. They share more notable passages of Don Juan as they highlight related literature and stories from across Europe, the archetypes and stock characters represented by Sganarelle, and the value of the comedic form. They also talk about other works that were influenced by this play.
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| 0:00.0 | This is not just another book chat podcast. |
| 0:21.6 | Lifelong reader Cindy Rollins joins teachers Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks for an ongoing conversation about the skill and art of reading well. |
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| 1:02.2 | reality. Join us for an ever-unfolding discussion of how stories will save the world. |
| 1:09.7 | This is the Literary Life Podcast. |
| 1:37.7 | Hello and welcome back to the literary life podcast. I am Donna Angelina. And with me is the mysterious... Don Tom. That doesn't quite work. That doesn't... Don Thomas. Yeah. Don Banco. Sure. |
| 1:44.5 | I'm trying. |
| 1:45.6 | Give me something to work with here. |
| 1:46.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:47.4 | I don't think a Latin version of me would be very convincing. |
| 1:50.1 | It's true. |
| 1:50.8 | Neither of us are Spanish, so forgive us. |
| 1:55.1 | Both French. |
| 1:56.2 | We're doing our best here. |
| 1:57.8 | Multicultural Day on the House of Humane Letters. |
| 2:00.5 | We are discussing Acts 3, 4, the House of Humane Letters. We are discussing acts three, |
| 2:02.4 | four, and five of Moliere's play Don Juan. Now, he's a Frenchman doing Spanish characters. See, |
| 2:08.5 | we're just in the tradition here. Indeed. Indeed. Actually, the French theater, and the English |
| 2:14.6 | theater, too, at this time time borrowed a lot from Spanish drama and |
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