SOURCE: “The Evolution of a Dramatic Text: The Case of Le Mariage de Figaro,” in Voices in the Air: French Dramatists and the Resources of Language, edited by John Dunkley and Bill Kirton, University of Glasgow French and German Publications, 1992, pp. 102-17.
In the following essay, Howarth addresses Beaumarchais's creative process by comparing versions of The Marriage of Figaro.
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