- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford (9 Oct 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0192804138
- ISBN-13: 978-0192804136
- Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.2 x 2.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 931,416 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Barber of Seville * The Marriage of Figaro * The Guilty Mother Eighteenth-century France produced only one truly international theatre star, Beaumarchais, and only one name, Figaro, to put with Don Quixote or D'Artagnan in the ranks of popular myth. But who was Figaro? Not the impertinent valet of the operas of Mozart or Rossini, but both the spirit of resistance to oppression and 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 also chart the growth of Beaumarchais' humanitarianism. They are also exuberant theatrical entertainments, masterpieces of skill, invention, and social satire which helped shape the direction of French theatre for a hundred years. This lively new translation catches all the zest and energy of the most famous valet in French literature.Beaumarchais[title should link to the catalogue entry][insert cover image 2804138]
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David Coward is the author of studies of Marivaux, Marguerite Duras, Marcel Pagnol and Restif de le Bretonne, and of A History of French Literature. For OWC he has edited eight novels by Alexandre Dumas and translated Dumas fils' La Dame aux camelias', two selections of Maupassant short stories, Sade's Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales and Diderot's Jacques the Fatalist. He reviews regularly for the TLS and the London
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The Figaro Trilogy (Oxford World's Classics), 12 Jan 2007
By Renaissance Man - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Figaro Trilogy: The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, The Guilty Mother (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)
For any Mozart/Rossini opera fan who wants to read the book from which
the "Barber or Seville" and the "Marriage of Figaro "came from, this
book is for you. It is a good background to understanding these works.
Best of all, the concluding play in the Trilogy "The Grieving Widow"
brings to close the story of these beloved opera characters. It's light
reading and fun.
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Gets the message across, 26 July 2008
By Anthony Moresi - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Figaro Trilogy: The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, The Guilty Mother (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)
This is a pretty good new translation, although it does have some grammatical errors. So, have a pencil in hand when you read it if you want to touch up the missing conjunction words and misused words. I'm sure translating from the old French is not easy, so I don't hold it against Mr. Coward. But he should have not been a coward when it came to proofreading...his editor should have been reading more carefully as well.
Enjoy!
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My favorite Figaro, 30 April 2011
By Talia - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Figaro Trilogy: The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, The Guilty Mother (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)
I'm a huge Beaumarchais fan, having even gone so far as to translate his play Eugenia: Eugénie -- and I actually just collect English translations of the Figaro plays for the fun of it. This particular version is definitely the best translation I've found of any! It's the most readable and most well-translated for humor's sake. There are a couple mistakes, but they're typical ones (even native French speakers have trouble understanding Beaumarchais.) At present, this is the version I would probably recommend to anyone looking to read or perform the plays.
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