by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais · Pocket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782266087179
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«Le Barbier de Séville / Le Mariage de Figaro / La Mère coupable» is the theatrical trilogy by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais in paperback (Pocket).
The volume brings together the three plays featuring Figaro: The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro and The Guilty Mother. In them, the servant's intrigues serve Beaumarchais to portray with irony the contradictions of the Ancien Régime and the clash between the cunning individual and aristocratic power, on the eve of the French Revolution.
The edition, 409 pages, is part of the Classiques Pocket collection; it includes the complete text of the Figaro trilogy in French.
For readers of classic French theatre and for those interested in the original works that inspired the operas by Mozart and Rossini.
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was a French playwright and diplomat of the Age of Enlightenment. Best known for his three Figaro plays, at various times in his life he was also a watchmaker, inventor, musician, spy, publisher, arms dealer, and revolutionary.
