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Beaumarchais
The Figaro Trilogy: The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, The Guilty Mother (Oxford World's Classics)
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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 r�gime 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.
The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro (Penguin Classics)
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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.
La Folle Journée ou le Mariage de Figaro (French Edition)
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Beaumarchais: A Biography
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Playwright, politician, publisher, entrepreneur, spy, and rebel: few men of eighteenth-century letters led a more varied or controversial life than Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. From humble beginnings as a watchmaker to exalted fame as the author of The Marriage of Figaro, Beaumarchais was a self-made man in a time when self-fashioning was close to impossible, a revolutionary in both his life and his art. From these pages emerges the portrait of a man whose talents and activities extended far beyond the comedies that made him famous. We meet a political visionary who openly supported the American revolutionaries on the eve of his country’s own political upheaval; a reckless but brilliant entrepreneur; and an early champion of the rights of artists and intellectual property. Most of all, we meet a writer whose wit and social acumen was matched only by his determination to publish on his own terms—even at the risk of political exile. In a narrative that reaches from the courts of Paris to secretive rendezvous in London and Germany, from Europe to America, and from the theater of war to the performances of the famed Comédie-Français, Maurice Lever re-creates the exciting and often perilous times in which Beaumarchais lived. Incorporating countless letters and firsthand accounts, Beaumarchais is an irresistibly lively and engaging account of an extraordinary life.
Improbable Patriot: The Secret History of Monsieur de Beaumarchais, the French Playwright Who Saved the American Revolution
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Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was an eighteenth-century French inventor, famed playwright, and upstart near-aristocrat in the court of King Louis XVI. In 1776, he conceived an audacious plan to send aid to the American rebels. What's more, he convinced the king to bankroll the project, and singlehandedly carried it out. By war's end, he had supplied Washington's army with most of its weapons and powder, though he was never paid or acknowledged by the United States. To some, he was a dashing hero--a towering intellect who saved the American Revolution. To others, he was pure rogue--a double-dealing adventurer who stopped at nothing to advance his fame and fortune. In fact, he was both, and more: an advisor to kings, an arms dealer, and author of some of the most enduring works of the stage, including The Marriage of Figaro and The Barber of Seville.
Le barbier de Séville, ou, La précaution inutile
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The Frugal Traveler in Paris - New York Times
New York Times, United States - Feb 08, 9375
The Frugal Traveler in Paris111 Blvd Beaumarchais, 3rd arrond. No entry fee, a hoot to visit. 3 floors of old and new design stuff. Warning: Café not cheap. Parc Citroen. Hot air balloon, great fun fountain, lots of small gardens arranged according to color or theme. Free.
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Atkinson, Churchill, Cornachio & More Set For Whidbey Island ... - Broadway World
Broadway World, NY - May 14, 2009
Atkinson, Churchill, Cornachio & More Set For Whidbey Island This action-packed, and mostly true, story follows the high stakes adventures of Pierre Beaumarchais (David Gignac), the Parisian playwright who wrote The Marriage of Figaro and The Barber of Seville. As the aging Madame DuDeffand fights for control of
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May the Farce Be With You: - A Flea in Her Ear at the KC Rep - KCTribune.com
KCTribune.com, Missouri - Feb 08, 3857
KCTribune.comMay the Farce Be With You: - A Flea in Her Ear at the KC RepThe three-act play, first produced in 1907, was an immediate hit with French audiences for whom Feydeau was a smooth conduit between the traditional humor handed down by Molière and Beaumarchais and the metaphorical modernist styles presented by the
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Marriage of Figaro Seattle Opera - review
Examiner.com - May 14, 2009
The Marriage of Figaro is based on Beaumarchais's 1784 play La Folle Journee ou le Marriage de Figaro, a sequel to Le Barbier de Seville (The Barber of Seville), familiar to opera audiences through Rossini's great opera. In Le Barbier, Count Almaviva,
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From The Times - Times Online
Times Online, UK - Feb 08, 3167
From The TimesPierre de Beaumarchais, watchmaker, secret agent and author of The Barber of Seville (1772) and The Marriage of Figaro (1784), 1799; George Meredith, novelist and poet, best known for The Egoist (1879), 1909; Gustav Mahler, composer and conductor,
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