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  • The Figaro Trilogy: The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, The Guilty Mother

    The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, The Guilty Mother

    by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais ...
    Translated by David Coward ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro and The Guilty Mother were the first plays to use a set of recurring characters who develop over time. They chronicle the slide of the ancien regime into revolution and Figaro was seen as a threat to the establishment. The impertinent, bustling servant was appropriated by Mozart and Rossini for their own purposes, and Beaumarchais became eighteenth ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro

    by Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais ...
    A French courtier, secret agent, libertine and adventurer, Beaumarchais (1732-99) was also author of two sparkling plays about the scoundrelly valet Figaro - triumphant successes that were used as the basis of operas by Mozart and Rossini. A highly engaging comedy of intrigue, The Barber of Seville portrays the resourceful Figaro foiling a jealous old man's attempts to keep his beautiful ward from ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Marriage of Figaro

    by Pierre de Beaumarchais ...
    Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) was an exceptional French writer of prose comedy during the eighteenth century. He is best known for his theatrical works of the three Figaro plays. Beaumarchais had an action-filled career as a watchmaker, musician, secret agent, businessman, diplomat and a financer of revolutions. His literary career was as turbulent as his personal life. After a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro

    by Pierre Beaumarchais ...
    Eighteenth century French author Pierre Beaumarchais is best known today for his Figaro plays. Beaumarchais had an action-filled career as a watchmaker, musician, secret agent, businessman, diplomat, and a financer of revolutions. His literary career was as turbulent as his personal life. After a series of lawsuits in Paris, the accounts of his trials made his reputation as a sarcastic, effective, ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

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    The Figaro Plays: The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro and The Guilty Mother

    Three BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisations

    by Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais ...
    Narrated by Nickolas Grace, Gary Bond, Alison Steadman, Michael Aldridge, Norman Rodway, Moir Leslie, John McAndrew, Dorothy Tutin, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 45 min

    A trilogy of classic plays by Pierre Augustin Caron De Beaumarchais, including The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro and The Guilty MotherForerunner to the renowned operas, The Figaro Plays by Pierre Augustin Caron De Beaumarchais are a celebration of how intelligence and wit can bring any servant level with their aristocratic masters. Considered scandalous in their time, the plays went on ... Read more

    $17.45 USD

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    The Follies of a Day (UNABRIDGED)

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    by Pierre Beaumarchais ...
    Narrated by Lisa Kelsey, Georgie Ramsey, Paul Scott, Susan Johnson ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 5 min

    This is Thomas Holcroft's English translation, obtained by attending Pierre Beaumarchais' French play nine times in Paris during its original official staging in 1784. Beaumarchais' play was the basis for Mozart's 1796 opera, and is a satire about lovers' misdoings and French society. Because of its rebellious themes, presented during the troubling times leading up to the French Revolution, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    The Follies of a Day (Unabridged)

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    by Pierre Beaumarchais ...
    Narrated by Steve Thorson, Oscar Ordonez, Margaret Lawson, Amy Reina ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 5 min

    Love is tangled, loyalties are tested, and chaos reigns supreme in "The Follies of a Day," a witty social satire by Pierre Beaumarchais. Figaro, the clever servant, prepares for his wedding to Suzanne, the charming maid. But their plans are thrown into disarray by the arrival of their philandering former master, Count Almaviva, who still desires Suzanne for himself. As the Countess, scorned by her ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    The Barber of Seville (Unabridged)

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    by Pierre Beaumarchais ...
    Narrated by Joey Walls, Ora Curry, Ann Deangelo, Michael Washinski ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 15 min

    In the vibrant streets of Seville, love ignites a whirlwind of comical chaos. Count Almaviva is smitten with the beautiful Rosina, but a jealous guardian keeps her locked away. Enter Figaro, the cunning barber, a master of disguise and quick wit. With a wink and a razor, Figaro vows to help the Count woo Rosina, outsmart the grumpy guardian, and orchestrate a hilarious scheme that will secure ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Follies of a Day or The Marriage of Figaro

    by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais ...
    The play unfolds over the course of a single day in Count Almaviva’s estate. Figaro, a clever and resourceful valet, is about to marry Suzanne, but their plans are threatened by the Count's attempts to seduce her. Figaro, Suzanne, and the Countess team up to expose and outsmart the Count, ultimately revealing his hypocrisy. The plot is a mix of deception, hidden identities, and humorous ... Read more

    $0.97 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Follies of a Day; or, The Marriage of Figaro

    Enriched edition. A comedy, as it is now performing at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. From the French of M. de Beaumarchais

    by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Jenna Whitmore ...
    Translated by Thomas Holcroft ...
    In his seminal play "The Follies of a Day; or, The Marriage of Figaro," Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais deftly intertwines comedy and social critique, encapsulating the tensions of 18th-century French society. With its witty dialogues and intricate plot, the play follows Figaro, the clever servant, as he navigates a labyrinth of romantic entanglements and class dynamics, all while subverting ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Barber of Seville

    by Pierre de Beaumarchais ...
    Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) was an exceptional French writer of prose comedy during the eighteenth century. He is best known for his theatrical works of the three Figaro plays. Beaumarchais had an action-filled career as a watchmaker, musician, secret agent, businessman, diplomat and a financer of revolutions. His literary career was as turbulent as his personal life. After a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • A Journey Through Marital Tales: 52 Storybooks

    Classic Tales of Courtship, Domestic Conflict, Social Convention, and Changing Gender Roles

    by George Bernard Shaw, John Kendrick Bangs, George Farquhar, Susanna Centlivre, Henrik Ibsen, Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Allan Monkhouse, Humphry Mrs. Ward, Charlotte Skinner, P. Jones, Mrs. Gordon Smythies, Arthur Hornblow, George Howells Broadhurst, Florence L. Barclay, A. S. M. Hutchinson, Archibald Marshall, Arthur Stringer, George Sand, Halliwell Sutcliffe, Margaret Widdemer, Mabel Barnes-Grundy, Neith Boyce, Martha Morton, W. Heimburg, Albert Delpit, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, George Moore, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Walter Besant, Alfred Ollivant, Cornelia A. P. Comer, August Strindberg, P. G. Wodehouse, Mae M. Franking, Katherine Anne Porter, Honoré de Balzac, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Morrison, George Gissing, Rudyard Kipling, Ella D'Arcy, Elinor Glyn, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hannah More, Mary Croom Brown, Fowl, Helen Rowland, Burt L. Standish, Annie F. Johnston, Carolyn Wells, James Montgomery Flagg, Sir John Dillon, Edward Ward, Frank Chapman Bliss ...
    A Journey Through Marital Tales: 52 Storybooks surveys marriage as contract, comedy, ordeal, aspiration, and social institution across an unusually broad transnational archive. Its stories and dramatic selections move from satirical intrigue and drawing-room wit to domestic realism, psychological conflict, sentimental romance, and pointed social critique. Comic reversals, contested inheritances, ... Read more

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