Figaro Trilogy The Barber of Seville, the Marriage of Figaro, the Guilty Mother

Name: Figaro Trilogy The Barber of Seville, the Marriage of Figaro, the Guilty Mother
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ISBN: 9780199539970

ISBN-10: 0199539979

ISBN-13: 9780199539970

Edition: 2008

Authors: Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, David Coward

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Eighteenth-century France produced only one truly international theater star, Beaumarchais, and only one name, Figaro, to combine with Don Quixote and D'Artagnan in the ranks of popular myth. But who was Figaro? He was quickly appropriated by Mozart and Rossini who tamed the original impertinent, bustling servant for their own purposes. On the eve of the French Revolution Figaro was seen as a threat to the establishment and Louis XIV even banned The Marriage of Figaro. Was the barber of Seville really a threat to aristocratic heads, or 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 they…

Book details

List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English