TY  - BOOK
AB  - 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 entertainment, masterpieces of skill, invention and social satire which helped shape the direction of the French theatre for a hundred years. This lively new translation captures all the zest and energy of the most famous valet in French literature.--From publisher description.
AU  - Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de,
AU  - Coward, David.
AU  - Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de,
AU  - Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de,
AU  - Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de,
CN  - PQ1956
CN  - PQ1956
CY  - Oxford ;
CY  - New York :
DA  - 2008
ID  - 335899
LA  - eng
LA  - Translated from the French.
N2  - 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 entertainment, masterpieces of skill, invention and social satire which helped shape the direction of the French theatre for a hundred years. This lively new translation captures all the zest and energy of the most famous valet in French literature.--From publisher description.
PB  - Oxford University Press,
PP  - Oxford ;
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2008
SN  - 9780199539970 (pbk.)
SN  - 0199539979 (pbk.)
T1  - The Figaro trilogy /
TI  - The Figaro trilogy /
ER  -