The Figaro Plays |
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| Author:
| Beaumarchais, |
| Editor:
| Leigh, John |
| Translator:
| Wells, John |
| ISBN: | 978-1-60384-132-0 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2010 |
| Publisher: | Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $75.00 |
Book Description:
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"Beaumarchais' plays have always seemed to need the same kind of shoring up as his reputation, as though they couldn't stand on their own without a scaffolding of good tunes. Yet, as John Wells's lively and splendidly speakable translations of the Barber, the Marriage, and A Mother's Guilt demonstrate, they need assistance from no one." --David Coward, The London Review of Books
"Beaumarchais' plays have always seemed to need the same kind of shoring up as his reputation, as though they couldn't stand on their own without a scaffolding of good tunes. Yet, as John Wells's lively and splendidly speakable translations of the Barber, the Marriage, and A Mother's Guilt demonstrate, they need assistance from no one." --David Coward, The London Review of Books