Don Juan
Throughout the Pride and Prejudice Novel Magazine, we've placed advertisements for the theatre. The featured plays—some imagined, some real—have been woven into our Regency zeitgeist by blending original playbill typography with our own interpretations and .ai-generated imagery.
Wherever possible, we've included actors' names from original productions. The .ai was guided to ensure male actors appear in striking red jackets, emphasising their roles as utter cads. You'll see this clearly in our selection of plays: The Beggar's Opera, The Clandestine Marriage, Don Juan, and our own creation, The Redcoat Rake. The only exception to this rule is Cinderella.
Our inclusion of Don Juan was directly inspired by Austen’s reflections after attending the play in Covent Garden. Austen described Don Juan memorably as "a compound of cruelty and lust," suggesting he was among the most intriguing characters she'd seen portrayed on stage.
References
Wikipedia - History of the Playboy Don Juan.
Wikipedia - Mozarts retelling of Don Juan - Don Giovanni
Byrons Don Juan - Overview of Byron with links to the poem.
Don Juan in Regency England - Peter Grahams Book on Byrons Poem and Regency England.
British Library - Playbill
Jane Austen Letters - Free Gutenberg Press Edition - See letter XLV. for the reference above.
Henrietta Street - Janes base in Covent Garden when she watched Don Juan.
