Pierre Beaumarchais | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 48 pages of analysis & critique of Pierre Beaumarchais.

Pierre Beaumarchais | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 48 pages of analysis & critique of Pierre Beaumarchais.
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SOURCE: “The Anxiety of Change: Reconfiguring Family Relations in Beaumarchais's Trilogy,” in Modern Language Quarterly, Vol. 55, No. 1, March, 1994, pp. 47-78.

In the essay below, McDonald considers the rights of the individual and the concepts of political and social change as dramatized in The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, and La Mère coupable. McDonald also addresses problems relating to a modern reader's interpretation of an eighteenth-century text.

Si j'étais professeur d'histoire de France, (dit l'histoire), et peut-être d'histoire du monde, je ferais lire [La Mère coupable] à mes élèves. … Je leur lirais d'abord les deux comédies; et ensuite je leur lirais le drame. … Rien ne permettrait autant de mesurer la différence de temps, la différence de ton, enfin ce qui fait proprement l'histoire et l'âge et l'événement d'un peuple et du monde. Je voudrais donner à mes él...

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