SOURCE: “The Currency of Exchange in Beaumarchais' Mariage de Figaro: From the ‘Master Trope’ Synecdoche to Fetish,” in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 25, No. 1, Fall, 1991, pp. 57-84.
In the following essay, Pucci argues that Beaumarchais's use of changing values and the loss of aristocratic privilege in The Marriage of Figaro transforms the play from a mere light comedy.
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