Abstract
celon6s his three act zarzuela, El convidado de piedra, which, because of its theme, deserves to be rescued from its present obscurity. The initial page of the first edition of the work carried after the title this comment: zarzuela arreglada sobre el drama del mismo titulo.1 An immediate problem which suggests itself is to which specific play, if any, entitled El convidado de piedra he refers. As far as can be ascertained, there was no work of a Spanish writer that actually bore this title previous to the time of Castillo although the Don Juan plays of both Tirso de Molina and Antonio de Zamora were popularly known by this title.2 During the first seventy-five years of the nineteenth century, only two Don Juan plays had attained any popularity whatsoever; these were the works of Zamora and Jose Zorrilla. Zamora's play, which was produced yearly until 1844,3 carries the stone guest reference in its subtitle: No hay plazo que no se cumpla ni deuda que no se pague o el convidado de piedra. The year 1844 marked the composition of the more popular play, Don Juan Tenorio, by Zorrilla who makes no mention at all of the stone guest in the title.
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