The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro

The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro AND The Marriage of Figaro

By: Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais

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Paperback | 1 December 1976 | Edition Number 1

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The sparkling plays about the scoundrelly valet Figaro, used as the basis of operas by Mozart and Roissini

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-a French courtier, secret agent, libertine, and adventurer-created an audacious farce of disguise and mistaken identity that balances wit, frivolity and seriousness in equal measure.

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On the basis of these two plays alone, Beaumarchais can be placed alongside Voltaire as a truly great satirist. It is a shame that they are now known, outside France, merely as providing the libretti for two famous operas - but three or four pages into the scripts, in an excellent translation, and one realizes that they deserve to stand on their own merits as anti-aristocratic comedies at the centre of which stand a major comic creation: Figaro, the scheming and resourceful valet of Count Almaviva. Perhaps especially for the lovers of the operas, for whom it is a pleasure to know more about the lovely Countess, the beautiful Rosine, the cheeky Cherubin, these plays are a real pleasure to read, and come to life, as the greatest plays do, with the reader playing all the parts. (Kirkus UK)

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