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Rewriting myth: Moli\`{e}re's Don Juan.
BURIANOVÁ, Nikol
This diploma thesis deals with the problems of literary myths, especially with the rewriting of the literary myth of Don Juan written by Tirso de Molina and Jean-Baptiste Pouqueline, better known as Moliere. The theoretical part briefly outlines the issue of defining and rewriting of literary myths with the main emphasis on clarifying the terminology needed for the subsequent analysis. Clear articulation and determination of " mythemes ", which formed the basic mythical structure of the analyzed works, is crucial for the thesis. In the practical part, the thesis deals with the Spanish hypotext, The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest, which established the literary tradition of the myth of Don Juan. Subsequently, other versions, that create the real literary myth, became the focus of attention - Moliere´s tragicomedy Dom Juan or the Feast with the Statue and its reworking and versification by the French playwright Thomas Corneille. The aim of the thesis is to show to what extent the context of the origin of the work and the contemporary aesthetics transform the elaboration and handling of the mythemes and thus revise the given literary myth.
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