Don Gil de las calzas verdes
Don Gil de las calzas verdes (German title: Don Gil from the green pants ) is a Spanish comedy of mistaken identity , written around 1615 by Tirso de Molina , published in 1635.
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Doña Juana travels from Valladolid to Madrid after her lover , where he wants another free one. From then on, Juana leads a double life in that she is seen now as a woman, now as a man in green pants. She continues the game of confusion until the measure is full. Only then does she show mercy and clear up all errors and deceptions. Finally, three happy couples want to hold a wedding.
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Doña Juana is wearing a green man's costume and is on her way to Madrid with her servant Lombardo. Meanwhile, she tells him about her faithless lover Don Martín, to whom she is engaged. His father wants to marry Don Martín to the daughter of the extremely wealthy Don Pedro from Madrid. Her name is Ines. Martín, bound by the promise of marriage, decides to go to Madrid as Don Gil and to marry Ines. Doña Juana has found out about the plan and wants to take revenge on it. She leaves Lombardo near Madrid, who remains available in readiness for her, and looks for an additional servant. She meets the very windy abandoned servant Tristan.
Don Pedro, the father of Doña Ines, arranges a first meeting between Ines and Martín in the park. Juana finds out in good time. She rushes to the park before her unfaithful lover appears there. As a young gentleman, she courted Ines, who is accompanied by Don Mendo and her friend Doña Clara, and pretended to be the expected Don Gil. The prank succeeds. Ines is delighted with her and falls violently in love with the supposedly tender young man. Don Mendo, who wants to marry Ines, falls into jealousy and wants to kill Don Gil.
When Don Pedro and Don Martín arrive, the desired confusion occurs. Ines is not very pleased with the new Don Gil and speaks only about the Don Gil with the green trousers.
To be on the safe side and not let Martín track down who his doppelganger is, Juana sends Lombardo to report that Juana has left Valladolid, gone to a monastery and is expecting a child there. Juana pushes the game on. Now she also appears in woman's costume as Doña Elvira, who is traveling after an unfaithful lover. Ines she tells that the unfaithful Don Gil is who applies for Ines' hand. Don Martín and Tristan soon appear to Don Gil as an eerie ghost. Don Martín considers it to be his conscience, the avenging spirit of Juana, who has since supposedly died.
Doña Clara has now also fallen in love with Don Gil with the green pants. In front of Ines' house, an insane mess emerges in which four Don Gils (Don Mendo, Don Martín, Doña Clara and Doña Juana) appear, partly out of love, partly out of jealousy. There are disputes among the various Gils, arrests and slander, until everything is cleared up and all couples of the initial constellation come together happily.
Performances
Since 2008 the play has been on the repertoire of the St. Pauli theater ruins in Dresden, and in 2013 on that of the Munich Summer Theater .
filming
The play was filmed in 1927 as a silent film under the title Doña Juana by Paul Czinner with Elisabeth Bergner in the title role . In 1963 the Hamburg studio produced the television film Don Gil from the green pants with Joseph Offenbach and Uwe Friedrichsen .
musical
Based on the original of the piece, the German composers Gerd Natschinski and Jürgen Degenhardt published a musical entitled Caballero in 1988 . Werner Braunfels composed an opera.
Individual evidence
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