an adulterous liaison in Spain, ab affair on a Greek island with a pirate's daughter, a masquerade in a Sultan's harem, a bloody battle in Turkey and a sojourn in Russia as the lover of Catherine the Great

—all described by a narrator who frequently digresses from his hero in order to converse with his readers about war, society and convention. A revolutionary  experiment in epic, Don Juan blends high drama with earthy humour, outrageous satire of Byron's contemporaries  (in particular Wordsworth and Southey) and mockery of Western culture, with England under particular attack.

       拜伦（此）狂放不羁的诙谐之作涉及一位名叫堂·璜的小伙子，他经历了种种奇遇。其不同凡响的行为包括

在西班牙的通奸，在希腊一岛上与海盗女儿的恋情，在苏丹后宫的男扮女装，在土耳其的浴血奋战，以及作为

女皇凯瑟琳的情人在俄罗斯的羁留。—所有的描写皆由一叙述者为同其众读者谈论战争、社会及习俗而频频撇

下其主人公。（这是）叙事诗中的一场革命性实验，堂·璜把高度的戏剧性糅合于现实的幽默，辛辣地讽刺了与

拜伦同时代的人们—尤其是华兹华斯和骚赛—并嘲弄了西方文学，连同对英格兰恨铁不成钢的抨击。