|
Southern Methodist University - SPRING 2011 | ||
Section 001 | ||
The Figaro Trilogy: The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, The Guilty Mother (Oxford World's Classics) (1st Edition) by David Coward (Translator), P. Beaumarchais, David Coward Beaumarchais Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2008 ISBN-10: 0-19-953997-9 / 0199539979 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953997-0 / 9780199539970 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, bu |