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 régime into revolution but they also chart the growth of Beaumarchais' humanitarianism. They are exuberant theatrical entertainments, masterpieces of skill, invention, and social satire which helped shape the direction of French theater for a hundred years. This lively new translation catches all the zest and energy of the most famous valet in French literature.

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

Literature & Fiction

BEAUMARCHAIS, PIERRE-AUGUSTIN CARON DE

Coward, David

Dramas & Plays

Oxford University Press

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 régime into revolution but they also chart the growth of Beaumarchais' humanitarianism. They are exuberant theatrical entertainments, masterpieces of skill, invention, and social satire which helped shape the direction of French theater for a hundred years. This lively new translation catches all the zest and energy of the most famous valet in French literature. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

AVIS DE L'ÉDITEUR.Par un abus punissable, on a envoyé à Amsterdam un prétendu manuscrit de cette pièce, tiré de mémoire et défiguré, plein de lacunes, de contre-sens et d'absurdités. On l'a imprimé et vendu en y mettant le nom de M. de Beaumarchais. Des comédiens de province se sont permis de donner et représenter cette production, comme l'ouvrage de l'auteur; il n'a manqué à tous ces gens de bien que d'être loués dans quelques feuilles périodiques.

Le mariage de Figaro (Blackwell's French texts) (French Edition)

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

B. Blackwell

Le barbier de Séville (Blackwell's French texts) (French Edition)

This is a translation of Beaumarchais' three plays around the character of Figaro. The course of the plays follows that of the French nation at the time of their writing, reflecting the dynamism of Beaumarchais' own life.

Figaro Plays (Trans. Graham Anderson) (Absolute Classics)

Oberon Books

New Materials for the History of the American Revolution

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

History

Americas

BiblioLife

Le Mariage De Figaro; Comedie En Cinq Actes, En Prose (French Edition)

World

Le Mariage De Figaro

"Le Mariage de Figaro" de Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. Musicien, écrivain, homme d'affaires et poète français (1732-1799).

Le Mariage de Figaro (French Edition)

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