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.
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