A Count's valet prepares to marry the Countess' chambermaid until it becomes clear the Count wishes to revive an old law that will allow him to take advantage of the bride before the wedding. The valet's schemes to thwart the Count show the growing French endorsement of an aristocracy of merit and wits rather than birth, in Pierre Beaumarchais' 1784 play. "... the very talented American playwright Richard Nelson [has undertaken] a new and emphatically idiomatic adaptation ... Nelson's dialogue proves resolutely contemporary." --Clive Barnes, New York Post "The Beaumarchais/Nelson/Serban FIGARO is a pleasure to see, to talk about, to remember." --Julius Novick, The Village Voice

The Marriage of Figaro

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Richard Nelson

BEAUMARCHAIS

Dramas & Plays

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The Figaro Plays (Hackett Classics)

[Beaumarchais'] fame rests on Le Barbier de Seville (1775) and Le Mariage de Figaro (1784), the only French plays which his stage-struck century bequeathed to the international repertoire. But his achievement has been adulterated, for ‘Beaumarchais’ has long been the brand name of a product variously reprocessed by Mozart, Rossini, and the score or so librettists and musicians who have perpetuated his plots, his characters, and his name. The most intriguing question of all has centered on his role as catalyst of the Revolution. Was his impertinent barber the Sweeney Todd of the Ancien Régime, the true begetter of the guillotine? . . . Beaumarchais' plays have often seemed to need the same kind of shoring up as his reputation, as though they couldn't stand on their own without a scaffolding of good tunes. Yet, as John Wells' lively and splendidly speakable translations of the Barber, the Marriage, and A Mother's Guilt demonstrate, they need assistance from no one. [Beaumarchais] thought of the three plays as a trilogy. Taken together, they reflect, as John Leigh’s commentaries make clear, the Ancien Régime’s unstoppable slide into revolution. --David Coward in The London Review of Books

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[Beaumarchais'] fame rests on Le Barbier de Seville (1775) and Le Mariage de Figaro (1784), the only French plays which his stage-struck century bequeathed to the international repertoire. But his achievement has been adulterated, for ‘Beaumarchais’ has long been the brand name of a product variously reprocessed by Mozart, Rossini, and the score or so librettists and musicians who have perpetuated his plots, his characters, and his name. The most intriguing question of all has centered on his role as catalyst of the Revolution. Was his impertinent barber the Sweeney Todd of the Ancien Régime, the true begetter of the guillotine? . . . Beaumarchais' plays have often seemed to need the same kind of shoring up as his reputation, as though they couldn't stand on their own without a scaffolding of good tunes. Yet, as John Wells' lively and splendidly speakable translations of the Barber, the Marriage, and A Mother's Guilt demonstrate, they need assistance from no one. [Beaumarchais] thought of the three plays as a trilogy. Taken together, they reflect, as John Leigh’s commentaries make clear, the Ancien Régime’s unstoppable slide into revolution. --David Coward in The London Review of Books

Le Mariage de Figaro (French Edition)

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Le Mariage De Figaro

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Le mariage de Figaro Tome I

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Le mariage de fFigaro tome II

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Le Mariage de Figaro connut en 1784 un triomphe sans précédent. Figaro, valet frondeur qui entend se marier avec Suzanne, y défie son maître Almaviva, qui essaie de son côté par tous les moyens d'obtenir les faveurs de la fiancée. Cette comédie allègre souleva l'indignation mais aussi l'enthousiasme. Car jamais auparavant on n'avait traité si hardiment des grands, de leurs moeurs et de leurs privilèges ; mais jamais non plus on n'avait si subtilement dépeint la course au bonheur et le désir amoureux. ed. Larousse

Le mariage de Figaro - Petits Classiques Larousse (French Edition)

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Le barbier de seville

Le Mariage De Figaro Tome I

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[Paris]. 17 cm. 336 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Idioma Francés. Texte imprimé. éd. présentée, annotée et commentée par Jean Goldzink,. 37-Tours. Impr. Mame. ill. , couv. en coul. Classiques Larousse (1933). 1992. Le mariage de Figaro. Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de(1732-1799). (1937-. ) .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 2-03-871031-7

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