id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 2227mp50p5r Lesley Grace Sullivan Textual Polyphony in Mozart's Don Giovanni 1904 .txt text/plain 196 8 43 This linear reading informs the widely shared interpretation that over the whole opera, from overture to finale, looms the sinner's refusal to repent and inevitable condemnation to eternal punishment. The resulting interpretation descends from a literary tradition originating in counter-Reformation texts, starting with de Molina's El Burlador and continuing with such acclaimed comedies as the commedia-dell'arte L'ateista fulminato, to Goldoni's and Moliere's Dons. cache/2227mp50p5r.txt txt/2227mp50p5r.txt