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The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro (Classics) Book

A French courtier, secret agent, libertine and adventurer, Beaumarchais (1732-99) was also author of two sparkling plays about the scoundrelly valet Figaro - triumphant successes that were used as the basis of operas by Mozart and Rossini. A highly engaging comedy of intrigue, The Barber of Seville portrays the resourceful Figaro foiling a jealous old man's attempts to keep his beautiful ward from her lover. And The Marriage of Figaro - condemned by Louis XVI for its daring satire of nobility and privilege - depicts a master and servant set in opposition by their desire for the same woman. With characteristic lightness of touch, Beaumarchais created an audacious farce of disguise and mistaken identity that balances wit, frivolity and seriousness in equal measure.Read More

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  • ASDA

    Beaumarchais was a man of immense wit and feeling and it is our loss that his two great plays are only known to us through Rossini and Mozart. It was Beaumarchais who brought fun back into the theatre and broke the convention of formality which had grown up since Moliere.

  • Pickabook

    Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, J. Wood (Trans)

  • 0140441336
  • 9780140441338
  • Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais
  • 31 March 2005
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 223
  • New Impression
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