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Beaumarchais in Seville
Hugh Thomas
Category: Biographies & Memoirs: General
ISBN: 0-300-12103-2 EAN: 978-0-300-12103-2 Format: Hardcover Pages: 192 Publisher: Yale University Press Year: 2007 Quantity in Stock: 9
Cover price: £18 Sale Price:£3.99
"Drawing on Beaumarchais's letters and commentaries, translated into English for the first time, Hugh Thomas investigates the full range of the playwright's activities in Madrid. He focuses particular attention on short plays that Beaumarchais attended and by which he was probably influenced, and he probes the inspirations for such widely recognized characters as the barber-valet Figaro, the lordly Count Almaviva, and the beautiful but deceived Rosine. Not neglecting Beaumarchais's many other pursuits (ranging from an endeavor to gain a contract for selling African slaves to an attempt to place his mistress as a spy in the bed of King Charles III), Lord Thomas provides a view of a vital moment in Madrid's history and in the creative life of the energetic Beaumarchais."--BOOK JACKET.
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