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

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ISBN: 9780199539970 出版年：2003 页码： Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de Coward, David Oxford University Press

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-century France's only truly international theatre star.