With a calloused and lustful heart, Don Juan indulges his sexual appetites with boundless enthusiasm. Heedless of warnings both earthly and otherwise, history’s most notorious romantic devil rushes headlong toward retribution in Molière’s sparkling comedy.
“Richard Nelson’s supple translation accommodates this transposition comfortably, without infidelity to the original.”
Julius Novick, The Village Voice
“Richard Nelson’s translation…seems an improvement on previous drab, very English, English versions.”
James Lardner, The Washington Post