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Profligacy

See also Debauchery, Lust, Promiscuity.

Arrowsmith, Martin

simultaneously engaged to Madeline and Leona. [Am. Lit.: Arrowsmith]

Bellaston, Lady

wealthy profligate; keeps Tom as gigolo. [Br. Lit.: Tom Jones]

Booth, Captain

pleasure-loving prodigal; lacks discipline. [Br. Lit.: Amelia]

Casanova, Giovanni Jacopo

(1725–1798) myriad amours made his name synonymous with philanderer. [Ital. Hist.: Benét, 172]

Don Juan

internationally active profligate and seducer. [Span. Lit.: Benét, 279; Ger. Opera: Mozart, Don Giovanni, Wester-man, 93–95]

Flashman, Harry

British soldier wenches his way around world. [Br. Lit.: Flashman]

Genji, Prince

Emperor’s dashing and talented bastard woos many. [Jap. Lit.: The Tale of Genii]

Iachimo

scorns and craftily tests feminine virtue. [Br. Lit.: Cymbeline]

Jones, Tom

manly but all too human young man; has numerous amorous adventures. [Br. Lit.: Tom Jones]

Karamazov, Dmitri

lusty and violent in most of his actions. [Russ. Lit.: Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov]

Lothario

young rake and seducer. [Br. Lit.: The Fair Penitent]

Lyndon, Barry

from bully to dissipative rake and cruel husband. [Br. Lit.: Barry Lyndon]

Macheath, Captain

gambler and robber; has scores of illegitimate offspring. [Br. Opera: The Beggar’s Opera]

Rake’s Progress, A

Hogarth prints illustrating the headlong career and sorry end of a libertine. [Br. Art: EB (1963) XI, 625]

Santa Cruz, Juanito

loses his wife, lover, and esteem by philandering. [Span. Lit.: Fortunata and Jacinta]

Scales, Gerald

sales representative known for lavish living, gambling, amorality. [Br. Lit.: The Old Wives’ Tale, Magill I, 684–686]

Venusberg

magic land of illicit pleasure where Venus keeps court. [Ger. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 932]

Zeus

supreme of Greek gods; extramarital affairs were count-less. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 292]