The Figaro Trilogy The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, The Guilty Mother (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron De

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199539979 ISBN 13: 9780199539970

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2008

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Title: Figaro Trilogy <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: Beaumarchais <>Publisher: OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS

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Review:

'Coward's introduction is a small masterpiece, weaving information and interpretation into a compelling narrative in a way which makes it alone worth the modest price of the volume.' 'David Coward's translations cope admirably with Beaumarchais' wide range of tones and registers in three very different plays, and are as speakable as they are readable.' 'this excellent volume provides an admirable introduction for the English-speaking reader to Beaumarchais' greatest creation' (Times Literary Supplement)

Synopsis:

The Barber of Seville * The Marriage of Figaro * The Guilty Mother Eighteenth-century France produced only one truly international theatre star, Beaumarchais, and only one name, Figaro, to put with Don Quixote or D'Artagnan in the ranks of popular myth. But who was Figaro? Not the impertinent valet of the operas of Mozart or Rossini, but both the spirit of resistance to oppression and a bourgeois individualist like his creator. The three plays in which he plots and schemes chronicle the slide of the ancien regime into revolution but also chart the growth of Beaumarchais' humanitarianism. They are also exuberant theatrical entertainments, masterpieces of skill, invention, and social satire which helped shape the direction of French theatre for a hundred years. This lively new translation catches all the zest and energy of the most famous valet in French literature.Beaumarchais[title should link to the catalogue entry][insert cover image 2804138]

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0199539979
• ISBN 13: 9780199539970
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352