The Barber of Seville * The Marriage of Figaro * The Guilty MotherEighteenth-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 ofresistance to oppression and a bourgeois individualist like his creator. The three plays in which he plots and schemes chronicle the slide of the ancien regime 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 directionof 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] | The Figaro Trilogy by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Paperback | Indigo Chapters