Download or read book Beaumarchais and His Opponents written by Margaret Leah Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beaumarchais and his times written by Louis de Loménie and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beaumarchais and the Theatre written by William D. Howarth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-07 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William D Howarth sets Le Mariage de Figaro and Beaumarchais's other dramatic works in the broad historical context of pre-revolutionary France, providing a unique and authoritative study of the dramatist and his plays. He presents detailed analyses of the plays themselves, discussing their critical receptions, their influence on drama of the period and their legacy. Included is a discussion of the operatic adaptations: Mozart's Mariage de Figaro and Rossini's Le Barbier de Seville. The author also provides analyses of sketches and fragments only recently re-discovered. Beaumarchais and the Theatre is a comprehensive and much needed study of one of the most significant playwrights of the turbulent eighteenth century. It is invaluable reading for students of theatre history.
Download or read book Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence written by Elizabeth Sarah Kite and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beaumarchais and His Times written by Louis de Loménie and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence written by Elizabeth Sarah Kite and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence" in 2 volumes is one of the best-known works by an American historian Elizabeth Sarah Kite. Pierre Beaumarchais (1732-1799) was a French polymath who rose in French society and became influential in the court of Louis XV as an inventor and music teacher. He made a number of important business and social contacts, and played various roles as a diplomat and spy. An early French supporter of American independence, Beaumarchais lobbied the French government on behalf of the American rebels during the American War of Independence. Before France officially entered the war in 1778, Beaumarchais played a major role in delivering French munitions, money and supplies to the American army. Volume 1: Early life First Financial Successes Business Negotiations in Spain Beaumarchais's Return from Madrid The Famous Memoirs of Beaumarchais Beaumarchais Goes to London in Quality of Secret Agent of Louis XV Beaumarchais's Second Mission Under Louis XVI Playing Figaro upon the Stage of Life Visits the Empress of Austria The Character of Figaro The First Performance of Le Barbier de Séville Founder of the First Society of Dramatic Authors... Volume 2: Beaumarchais's Earliest Activities in the Cause of American Independence First Steps of the Government of France Beaumarchais's Memoirs to the King Beaumarchais's English Connections Memoirs Explaining to the King the Plan of His Commercial House Suspicions of England Aroused Through Indiscretions of Friends of America The Declaration of Independence and Its Effect in Europe Beaumarchais's Activity in Getting Supplies to America Letters to Congress The Mariage de Figaro House of Beaumarchais Searched Declared an Emigré Confiscation of his Goods Imprisonment of his Family The Ninth Thermidor Comes to Save Them Beaumarchais After his Return from Exile Correspondence with Bonaparte Pleads for Lafayette Imprisoned Death of Beaumarchais...
Download or read book Beaumarchais and His Times written by Louis Léonard de Loménie and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beaumarchais and His Times written by Louis de Loménie and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beaumarchais and the American Revolution written by Blanche Evans Hazard and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro written by Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A French courtier, secret agent, libertine and adventurer, Beaumarchais (1732-99) was also author of two sparkling plays about the scoundrelly valet Figaro - triumphant successes that were used as the basis of operas by Mozart and Rossini. A highly engaging comedy of intrigue, The Barber of Seville portrays the resourceful Figaro foiling a jealous old man's attempts to keep his beautiful ward from her lover. And The Marriage of Figaro - condemned by Louis XVI for its daring satire of nobility and privilege - depicts a master and servant set in opposition by their desire for the same woman. With characteristic lightness of touch, Beaumarchais created an audacious farce of disguise and mistaken identity that balances wit, frivolity and seriousness in equal measure.
Download or read book Beaumarchais the Merchant written by John Bigelow and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book For the Good of Mankind written by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, the first compilation of the political correspondence of Beaumarchais, author of the Marriage of Figaro, will shed light on the controversial diplomatic history of the American Revolution. The evidence presented here reveals that the author did mastermind the policy of aid to the American Revolution which has been attributed to the foreign affairs minister, Vergennes, to whom Beaumarchais addressed most of the correspondence in this volume.
Download or read book Beaumarchais written by Albert Emil Brachvogel and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Figaro written by John Rivers and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Louis XVI written by John Hardman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history’s most maligned rulers: France’s Louis XVI “The definitive contribution to our understanding of Louis XVI as a man and a monarch.”—P. M. Jones, English Historical Review “Monumental. . . . Scholars probing the mysteries of the late Old Regime and French Revolution will be working in its shadow for many years to come.”—Thomas E. Kaiser, Journal of Modern History Louis XVI of France, who was guillotined in 1793 during the Revolution and Reign of Terror, is commonly portrayed in fiction and film either as a weak and stupid despot in thrall to his beautiful, shallow wife, Marie Antoinette, or as a cruel and treasonous tyrant. Historian John Hardman disputes both these versions in a fascinating new biography of the ill-fated monarch. Based in part on new scholarship that has emerged over the past two decades, Hardman’s illuminating study describes a highly educated ruler who, though indecisive, possessed sharp political insight and a talent for foreign policy; who often saw the dangers ahead but could not or would not prevent them; and whose great misfortune was to be caught in the violent center of a major turning point in history. Hardman’s dramatic reassessment of the reign of Louis XVI sheds a bold new light on the man, his actions, his world, and his policies, including the king’s support for America’s War of Independence, the intricate workings of his court, the disastrous Diamond Necklace Affair, and Louis’s famous dash to Varennes.
Download or read book The Follies of a Day Or the Marriage of Figaro Dodo Press written by Pierre Augustin Caron De Beaumarchais and published by . This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) was a watch-maker, inventor, musician, politician, fugitive, spy, publisher, arms-dealer, and revolutionary (both French and American). He was best known, however, for his theatrical works, especially the three Figaro plays. Beaumarchais is well remembered for his essential support for the American Revolution. Louis XVI, who did not want to break openly with England, allowed him to found a commercial enterprise, Roderigue Hortalez and Co., supported by the French and Spanish crowns, whose real purpose was to supply the American rebels with weapons, munitions, clothes, and provisions. Shortly after Voltaireas death in 1778, he set out to publish Voltaireas complete works, many of which were banned in France. While the venture proved a financial failure, Beaumarchais was instrumental in preserving many of Voltaireas later works which otherwise might have been lost. His Figaro plays are indicative of the change in social attitudes before, during, and after the French Revolution. His works include: The Barber of Seville; or, The Useless Precaution (1773) and The Follies of a Day; or, The Marriage of Figaro (1778).
Download or read book Beaumarchais written by Joseph Sungolowsky and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1974 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
