Abstract
This essay studies a number of placements and misplacements of El burlador de Sevilla. Focusing on Naples, Tarragona and Sevilla as well as on a scene that adds two additional geographical pointers (Goa and Lisbon), the essay seeks to problematize don Juan′s conquests in terms of the map of empire. Imperial expansion is viewed in its two main epic aspects: conquests by force and by trickery (Aeneas and Ulysses). El burlador de Sevilla stands in judgment of both don Juan and Philip III. Like the viceroys of Goa, don Juan is always hoarding more and more, only to be brought down in the end by his own excesses, while the king is constantly attempting to re-arrange the misplaced. The misplacement of Goa in the play gives allows for new readings in terms of empire. And the (mis)placement of the loa of Lisbon leads us to ponder on the competition between two imperial projects.
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