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The Barber of Seville Study Guide

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by Pierre Beaumarchais
About 55 pages (16,342 words)
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In his two earliest plays, Beaumarchais tried to uphold the dramatic theory known as the bourgeois drama, which was an attempt to replace the neoclassical forms of drama with subject matter and method more suited to contemporary times. Bourgeois drama was serious drama written in simple prose that emphasized moral instruction in modern social contexts. However, Beaumarchais's bourgeois dramas were generally critical failures, and, with The Barber of Seville, Beaumarchais abandoned the bourgeois drama and embraced pure comedy. The essential plot derives from comedies stretching back to the Greek New Comedy circa 300 B.C.E. However, as John Richetti writes in European Writers, "what made his [Beaumarchais's] play much more than popular farce is . . . the irrepressible wit and cascading linguistic vivacity." The comic tone of the play is embodied in Figaro,.....

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